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

Thu Jun 13 17:06:27 UTC 2013

 Mireille,

excellent tip about the group names within ckan.featured_groups: I have used the "title" 
name. I switched to use the "URL" names and it works now!

The docs says: "Defines a list of group names or group ids."

I have just raised an issue on Github about this: https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/999

(issue 999 - who becomes the #1000 ? :-)

Cheers
Ralf

----------------ursprüngliche Nachricht-----------------
Von: "Mireille Raad" mir.mir at gmail.com 
An: "CKAN Development Discussions" ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org 
Datum: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:53:56 -0400
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> 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.p
>>> y). 
>>> 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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