[ckan-discuss] Bug: Add packages to group (form)

[Richard Cyganiak]

I just tried it and it's a huge improvement, thanks so much!

Richard


On 17 Sep 2010, at 14:15, Friedrich Lindenberg wrote:

> Hi Anja,
>
> the bugfix for this has now been deployed on ckan.net and should fix
> most of the problem you describe. It still lacks the option to remove
> packages in the edit mask before saving, which we will add as soon as
> possible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Friedrich
>
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Rufus Pollock  
> <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Dear Anja,
>>
>> This issue with autocompletion has been fixed in 'trunk' and will be
>> deployed to ckan.net asap.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> On 14 September 2010 10:38, Anja Jentzsch <anja at anjeve.de> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> since we are heavily using CKAN to maintain information on LInked  
>>> Data datasets, we often add packages to the lodcloud group.
>>> The form field for adding packages is kind of annoying at the  
>>> moment. There is an auto-complete feature that prevents us from  
>>> adding packages most of the time. You can only add packages by  
>>> choosing from the auto-complete feature as far as I know. Since  
>>> auto-complete doesn't update most of the times you only see the  
>>> first 5 results, ordered alphabetically. Typing package names or  
>>> titles doesn't usually change this list. At some point the package  
>>> pops up for a second and then the first list (ordered list) pops  
>>> up again. This were clicking fast might help, but if you hit the  
>>> wrong package then there is no way to remove this added package  
>>> for this editing process, since there is no way to uncheck the  
>>> added package now. So if you already added 5 packages, add the  
>>> wring 6th one, then the only way to rewind is reload the page and  
>>> add all over again.
>>> If package names and titles are short then adding them is even  
>>> harder since auto-completion doesn't seem to react to short words.
>>> So it would be really crucial to either fix the auto-completion  
>>> (search titles and names and update on time) or provide a way to  
>>> add packages by their names.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Anja (member of the LOD2 project)
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