[ckan-dev] Template modification: where to add secondary content block?

Sun Jun 8 23:50:55 UTC 2014

Hey thanks heaps Vitor!
As noted I'm very much confused and just getting started. It did not 
occur to me that these sorts of template changes constitute a change to 
Theming, but now I can see that's the paradigm that CKAN uses. You've 
saved me hours of frustration, thanks!
Cheers,
JB
On 9/06/2014 6:34 AM, Vitor Baptista wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Please refer to the Theming Guide at 
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/theming/index.html . The recommended 
> way of customizing a theme is to create a new extension and change 
> anything you'd like there, so you don't change CKAN core files, which 
> will save you lots of headaches down the road, when you want to 
> upgrade CKAN. This "project" that the spatial docs talk about is your 
> custom extension.
>
> You can see a few examples of extensions customizing the themes at 
> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-mx and 
> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-pakistan .
>
> The specific docs on how to customize a block is in 
> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/theming/templates.html#replacing-template-blocks-with-block
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> 2014-06-08 10:58 GMT-03:00 John Brisbin <john at boab.info 
> <mailto:john at boab.info>>:
>
>     G'Day all,
>
>     We're very new to CKAN and the templating system, so apologies in
>     advance for the obvious.
>
>     Following the documentation at:
>
>     http://docs.ckan.org/projects/ckanext-spatial/en/latest/spatial-search.html
>
>     We get to the stage of adding the spatial search widget.
>
>     First problem is making sure we have the right path to the
>     templates. Ours is a build from source install and I don't have
>     the concept of "projects". So this advice is mysterious:
>
>     ----
>     To add the map widget to the to the sidebar of the search page,
>     add this to the dataset search page template
>     (myproj/ckanext/myproj/templates/package/search.html)
>     ----
>
>     Fishing around a bit I see the search.html template at:
>
>     /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/templates/package/search.html
>
>     This should be the right file to modify? Assuming yes...
>
>     Next problem is to add the block given in the documentation. Where
>     does this go?
>
>     I see the template already has a % block secondary_content %
>     declaration, so I should just be able to add the spatial fragment
>     into the existing contents.
>
>     But I get an error:
>
>     ----
>     Template spatial/snippets/spatial_query.html cannot be found
>     ----
>
>     This makes me think that maybe I'm not in the right template area,
>     or have somehow not got the extension installed quite right. I
>     tried manually shoving the spatial snippets into the same
>     directory as search.html, changed the path in the block include
>     statement, and still got a "can't find the snippet" error.
>
>     Is this making enough sense to provide any guidance?
>
>     Thanks indeed,
>
>     JB
>
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