[ckan-discuss] CKAN custom development

[Dominik Moritz]

Hey Pabitra,

We suggest that you use extensions for all customizations. This will make sure that you don't break any core functionalities and keep CKAN upgradable. Also, it's a lot easier to get started with a new extension than to change the CKAN core. If you need to change existing functionalities, you can do that in an extension. Basically all core functionalities can be overridden in an extension. Furthermore, the templates can be overridden and you can make CKAN look totally different if you want to do that. You can find example CKAN instances at ckan.org/instances which were customized using extensions. 

My suggestion is to always make customizations in a extension. If something is not possible in an extension, we should try to add an extension point to CKAN so that you can make your customizations in an extension. 

I hope that this answers your question and I'm happy to help if you have any further questions. 

Best wishes,
Dominik

On 1 Jul 2013, at 20:35, Pabitra Dash <pkdash_reena at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I am new to CKAN and I am not sure if all custom code development to add new features have to be implemented as CKAN extensions. What about changing any of the existing functionalities?
> 
> Thanks
> Pabitra
> 
> Pabitra Dash
> 
> 
> pkdash_reena at hotmail.com
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