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

Thu Jun 13 15:53:56 UTC 2013

Many thanks guys for the feedback - I thought I was missing on something
obvious.

Is there any feature-request or wishlist for ckan where we can ask for
those settings?

As for the ckan.featured_groups, it works on my side, make sure to include
the group names as in their ckan generated urls, add spaces not commas to
separate and make sure to reload apache to see the modifications happen.

Otherwise, agree - it is a lot of work to change this - i am on the hunt
how to change the "this is a featured section" + image on the homepage as
well.

Best!

Many thanks!

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Randy Rosso <rossonova at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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