[ckan-dev] Assign datasets to groups

[Vitor Baptista]

Hi all,

The commit that changed this behavior is
https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/0a3ffe0850f8ed290b3f66049b08178dbec9804e.
It's in CKAN since 2.0. Before that, anyone could add/remove datasets from
groups, after that, only members of the group. As far as I know, there's no
way to change this behavior through ckan.auth.* settings.

I haven't tested it, but reading the source it seems we still don't show
error messages if we were unable to add a dataset to a resource.

Cheers,


2014-04-17 14:24 GMT-03:00 David Megginson <david.megginson at megginson.com>:

> 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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