[ckan-dev] Assign datasets to groups

Thu Apr 17 17:24:56 UTC 2014

I noticed in 2.2 that (in the default configuration) you need to be a
"member" of a group to add datasets to it now.  I don't see a ckan.auth.*
setting to re-enable letting anyone add a dataset to any group — we we need
to write a permissions handler to restore the old behaviour, I wonder?

Cheers, David

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Oderbolz
<stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> we encouter a strange behaviour on CKAN 2.0.3:
>
> - User Anne creates a new group called "Books"
> - User Anne adds a new datasets and adds it to the group "Books"
> - The new dataset gets saved and can be reached via the "Books" group
>
> so far so good, but:
>
> - User Phil adds a new dataset and adds it to the group "Books"
> - The new dataset gets saved and is not in the "Books" group (though no
> error is shown)
> - If the Phil edits the dataset there is actually no group shown,
> reselecting the "Books" group and saving the dataset doesn't show an error,
> but the dataset is still not added to the "Books" group
>
> It appears that as a user you are not allowed to add datasets to groups
> that you didn't create. Is this true? Why does the frontend not show an
> error to indicate this? Or should it be possible and there is a bug?
>
> I couldn't really find up to date documentation about this. It seems CKAN
> encourages the usage of organizations over groups. Is that correct?
>
> If anybody has some insights, this would be very helpful.
>
> Best regards
> Stefan
>
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