[ckan-dev] ckanext-scheming multiple_selected display issue (displays as an array)

Sat Nov 17 09:57:22 UTC 2018

Did you get this sorted? I wrote an unpublished blog post a while ago on
how to deal with this all and could see if I can get it out there...

Best,
Matt

On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 07:41, Biz Tweets <optweets at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please see (https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-scheming/issues/139) for more
> information
>
> If you set a field group in dataset.json to a multiple selected present
> such as
>
> "preset": "multiple_select" or "preset": "multiple_checkbox"
>
> It seems to save the selected options into an array and will display in an
> array on the facet list on the left hand side as so below:
>
> I followed what vithalalapati said and made a custom plugin with the
> following below:
>
> The facets_dict that im trying to print which has multiple selected fields
> is customer_area. Yet its still printing the facets_list in an array as so
> "["consumerdiscretionary", "consumerstaples"]"
>
> Because of this when you click it, it searches for the entire array rather
> than individually such as consumerdiscretionary or consumerstaples.
>
> Does anyone know or have a suggestion of how to save multiple selected
> fields in a non array fashion or display them in a non array fashion?
>
>
> class FacetViewPlugin(plugins.SingletonPlugin):
>     plugins.implements(plugins.IConfigurer)
>     plugins.implements(plugins.IFacets, inherit=True)
>     plugins.implements(plugins.ITemplateHelpers)
>
>     def update_config(self, config_):
>         toolkit.add_template_directory(config_, 'templates')
>         toolkit.add_public_directory(config_, 'public')
>         toolkit.add_resource('fanstatic', 'facetview')
>
>     # IFacets
>     def dataset_facets(self, facets_dict, package_type):
>         # We will actually remove all the core facets and add our own
>         facets_dict.clear()
>         facets_dict['file_type'] = plugins.toolkit._('File Type')
>         facets_dict['allowed'] = plugins.toolkit._('Allowed?')
>         facets_dict['organization'] = plugins.toolkit._('Organization')
>         facets_dict['cert'] = plugins.toolkit._('Cert')
>         #This one prints as an array below:
>         facets_dict['customer_area'] = plugins.toolkit._('Customer Area')
>         facets_dict['tags'] = plugins.toolkit._('Tags')
>         return facets_dict
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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