[ckan-dev] one CKAN - several clients

Thu Jun 13 13:59:52 UTC 2013

Some information about Organizations is in the user guide currently in the wiki:

https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/User-guide#users-organizations-and-authorisation
https://github.com/okfn/ckan/wiki/User-guide#managing-an-organization

Mark

On 13/06/2013, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi experts,
>> I want to run a single CKAN installation with several separate client
>> areas.
>> So that one client/organization can have their own datasets and
>> another client has another set of data.
>> If I do have several clients, I don't want to have the hassle to
>> setup up several servers and keep them running.
>>
>> Is there any way to do this with CKAN 2.0?
>>
>> Or do I have to use the API and do an UI by myself and seperate the
>> different datasets by tagging them?
>
> This sounds like you want to use CKAN 2.0's "organizations" feature.
> It's enabled by default and usable via the web frontend. You can create
> organizations and each one gets its own page with a searchable list of
> datasets, you can manage which users are members of an organization and
> able to add datasets to it, etc.
>
> There usn't a user guide for it yet afaik so you'll have to just play
> around with the user interface.
>
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