[ckan-dev] Customized Dataset creation form

Wed Jan 29 20:02:18 UTC 2014

Thanks Pabitra for sharing your experience. Don’t you need to map the ‘new' action to your customized controller class by implementing IRoutes interface?

-Khalegh
On Jan 29, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Pabitra Dash <pkdash_reena at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Well I am working on a similar problem. I though it would be easier to have a separate page displayed with list of dataset types when the user clicks the Add Dataset button. Then when the user selects a specific dataset, then I will show the new.html page. I have overridden the package/search.html as shown here:
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>  <code.png>  
> For some reason the select_dataset_types_form does not get displayed when the user selects the Add Dataset button even if I can see the in the debug mode that the controller is rendering this template file. It directly goes to the new.html file. I am stuck at figuring out how is the new() action method of the package.py controller gets invoked if this action is not in the search.html template.
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> Sorry I am not providing any solution to your problem. I thought I should share it since we are trying to solve the same overall problem.
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> Thanks,
> Pabitra
> Utah State University
> Logan, UT-84341, USA
> pkdash_reena at hotmail.com
> 
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> > From: khalegh at highwaythreesolutions.com
> > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:25:37 -0800
> > To: ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
> > Subject: [ckan-dev] Customized Dataset creation form
> > 
> > Hi CKAN Community,
> > 
> > I am new to ckan. I am trying to add an extra stage (and corresponding form) to the default 3-stage dataset creation form. What I want is to have an extra form right before the 'create dataset' form to give the user to choose the dataset type first (the user will choose the type from a drop-down list) and then based on the dataset type the dataset creation form should appear in the next stage with customized fields depending on the type of dataset. I would appreciate if anyone could help me know how to do that.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Khalegh
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