[ckan-dev] Organization's datasets

Mon Jun 24 10:04:59 UTC 2013

On 24 June 2013 10:26, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:
> As Nigel says you can add an existing dataset to an Organization, but
> only if you are logged in as a sysadmin. This would be one way to
> solve your problem.
>
> In your case it seems you have already groups which, ideally, you
> would like to convert into Organizations. This can't be done via the
> UI. However, since Organizations are just implemented as a special
> kind of group, it may be there is some magic way to do this - can
> anyone comment?

Magicians never give away their secrets ;p

Organizations are just special groups with a type of `organization` so
in theory that could be changed in the database but there may be
unforeseen issues.

>
> Mark
>
> On 24/06/2013, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi Lorena,
>>
>> Once you have created organizations, you can edit an existing dataset to
>> add them to an organization.  Does this solve the problem you're facing?
>>
>> Nigel Babu
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>> On 21 June 2013 16:46, Lorena . <lorenicka at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've encountered  a problem while using CKAN.
>>>
>>> I've in my CKAN a lot of datasets divided among different groups. Now, I
>>> have to select a number of users to have access to edit some of those
>>> datasets.
>>>
>>> I've seen that:
>>> - a group is a set of datasets and
>>> - an organization is a set of datasets and USERS
>>>
>>> When I create the organization, I'm able to add users with the "role":
>>> publisher, but the datasets that belong to that organization has to be
>>> new,
>>> I can't add to this new organization for example: 2 datasets of the
>>> groupA
>>> and 1 from the groupB, it's that right?
>>>
>>> I would like to maintain the groups as they are, with all their datasets
>>> but also, have a number of people able to modify some of the datasets of
>>> those groups, Is this possible somehow?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Lorena
>>>
>>>
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