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

Thu Jun 13 15:30:06 UTC 2013

Hi Randy,

yeah, I also have heard about a CKAN installation integrated into Drupal. Maybe this is the way forward.
However, a full-featured CMS like Drupal might be a bit overambitious for adding two or three pages into the CKAN start page ;-) Maybe there is a smaller solution ...

Cheers
Ralf

----------------ursprüngliche Nachricht-----------------
Von: "Randy Rosso" rossonova at gmail.com 
An: "CKAN Development Discussions" ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org 
Datum: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:14:58 -0400
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> 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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