[ckan-discuss] Adding other static pages (besides About)

[Brian Lee Yung Rowe]

David,

If I can get some pointers, I'm happy to have some of my staff and/or students pursue it. I have experience with Pyramid, so presumably the learning curve wouldn't be that difficult. What would be the best way to coordinate it?

Warm Regards,
Brian


On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:09 PM, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com> wrote:

> Brian,
> 
> Yes that's the first bit of the task. Hacking it should be pretty easy.
> 
> And yes it is an aim to make this job easily done from the web
> interface. It is reasonably high on the list of features people want
> here: https://trello.com/c/zkjFP311/50-simple-cms-extension-for-creating-custom-pages
> and just needs a sponsor or volunteers to code it.
> 
> David
> 
> On 29 August 2013 17:05, Brian Lee Yung Rowe <rowe at muxspace.com> wrote:
>> David,
>> 
>> Thanks for your response. There's a lot going on in that project, but I
>> think I see what needs to be done. It's basically overriding
>> 
>>    def after_map(self, map):
>>        map.connect(
>>            'guidelines', '/guidelines',
>>            controller='ckanext.canada.controller:CanadaController',
>>            action='view_guidelines'
>>        )
>>        return map
>> 
>> and the corresponding controller, yes? I guess the other question is whether
>> it would be easy to hook the editing of the copy into the same screen where
>> you can edit the contents of the About page?
>> 
>> Warm Regards,
>> Brian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 29, 2013, at 11:45 AM, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Brian,
>> 
>> Yes you'll need to make an extension. You can probably still bits of
>> that Canadian one. The page needs a URL (route) that points to a new
>> controller which calls a template. Create your template in Jinja and
>> ensure its file folder is added to the template folders.
>> 
>> It should be pretty future proof for the foreseeable AFAIC. If you'd
>> written this 2 years ago it would still work now on the latest CKAN.
>> 
>> Docs: http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/writing-extensions.html
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> On 29 August 2013 16:24, Brian Lee Yung Rowe <rowe at muxspace.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm a new CKAN user and would like to make some customizations to the
>> default installation. Is there a standard way of adding additional static
>> pages to a CKAN site? One approach I found based on data.gc.ca is to create
>> an extension, but it wasn't clear to me how to access a view or controller
>> that wouldn't be susceptible to breakage after a CKAN release. Any
>> suggestions or links to documentation are appreciated.
>> 
>> Warm Regards,
>> Brian Rowe
>> 
>> 
>> 
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