[ckan-dev] Creating 4 featured groups on the index page instead of 2.

Thu Jun 13 13:14:58 UTC 2013

Ralf,
There is a Drupal fork of CKAN, called DKAN:
https://drupal.org/project/dkan
I've been experimenting with that alongside CKAN, primarily because of the
configuration challenges posed by CKAN. The Drupal version seems a little
buggy so far though.
Randy

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Ralf Krüdewagen <user66 at arcor.de> wrote:

> Hi Mireille,
>
> that's a good question.
>
> Some days ago I tried to figure out how to change these featured groups on
> the home page with following result:
>
> - The amount of groups is hardcoded in the python sources (
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/blob/master/ckan/controllers/home.py). The
> code has already been marked as "horrible hack" ;-)
>
> - The "ckan.featured_groups" setting does not have any effect. Whatever I
> configure there the groups shown on start page are always the same.
>
> - It's unclear how the groups to be shown are selected (need to understand
> the source code).
>
> - It's also unclear how the datasets are selected shown in the groups (by
> time or number of resources, ... ??)
>
> So, from a user perspective there is much room for improvement setting up
> static pages in CKAN in order to slightly change the look&feel.
>
> There is quite much documentation about how to template and write
> extensions in order to customize CKAN. But to be honest: This is by far too
> complicated for non-developers. For example, I tried to figure out how to
> simply add a static page like "Feedback" or "Contact". Or to change CSS
> styles, change a page, etc. CKAN seems to be very flexible here by using
> some CKAN config parameters, some parameters in the admin GUI, templates,
> extensions and "resource" tools, but as I said that's too complicated. I
> still does not know how to customize CKAN without writing python code. Even
> the template engine is not really obvious and is just described for
> changing a page, not to add a new page.
>
>  I wish to have a basic CMS systems on top of the core CKAN (as data
> storage) in order to build the static pages. Maybe something like a mini
> wordpress.
>
> Cheers
> Ralf
>
> ----------------ursprüngliche Nachricht-----------------
> Von: "Mireille Raad" mir.mir at gmail.com
> An: ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
> Datum: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:03:54 -0400
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I want to place 4 featured groups in the ckan index page - any idea on
> how
> > to implement the count.
> >
> > in my ckan config files, I added the following line for example:
> > ckan.featured_groups = group1 group2 group3 group3
> >
> > but only group1 and group2 show.
> >
> > any .count feature available? Many thanks!
> >
> > Mireille
> >
>
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