[ckan-dev] Heads up: new Resource Views merged to master

Thu Jul 24 09:09:48 UTC 2014

Hi,

This is amazing news! Well done for all the fantastic work!

Best Wishes,
Alice

On 23/07/14 17:19, Adrià Mercader wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It seemed like it would never happen, but the new Resource Views
> branch (#1251) [1] has been finally merged to master. We are really
> excited about this, as it opens the door to greatly improve how
> resource visualizations are handled and allows a lot of exciting
> possibilities for integrating with other services and adding cool new
> features.
>
> The feature is now deployed to http://master.ckan.org
> Go to a resource page of a dataset you have permissions on and click
> the "Views" tab on the "Manage" section to get started, or check this
> example:
>
> http://master.ckan.org/dataset/resource-views-example/resource/4abb179d-a96a-4922-92da-a8c6c5b6a8a5
>
> (I'm sure Vitor will create more exciting examples soon ;) )
>
> You will quickly notice that the work is not over yet though. We
> particularly need to improve how default views are handled, the
> command line interface and the UI (it doesn't look that great right
> now). There are also lots of docs needed. We've collected these
> pending issues in the following GitHub issue:
>
>      https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/1851
>
> There is some previous background on this wiki page, which in all
> likelihood will have some outdated information (all this stuff should
> be properly moved to the docs).
>
>      https://github.com/ckan/ckan/wiki/Resource-Views
>
> So, if you are running a development version of CKAN on master be
> aware that you'll need to change some things to get the resource views
> right. A quick summary:
>
> * `paster db upgrade` to get the new tables
>
> * `python setup.py develop` to register the new plugins
>
> * `./bin/less` to rebuild the frontend
>
> * Change the view plugins on your ini file:
>
>      ckan.plugins = resource_proxy datastore datapusher text_view
> pdf_view recline_grid_view recline_graph_view recline_map_view
>
> * `paster views create all` to get the new resource views created for
> your existing resources.
>
> Note that tabular based visualizations require data to be in the
> DataStore (probably uploaded via DataPusher). DataProxy won't be
> longer supported by default.
>
> If you have any feedback or find any bugs add your comments on Github
> (make sure that the issue is not already known first). Any help in
> coding what's left, testing or documenting will be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Adrià
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