[ckan-discuss] Ckan 2.0: Adding datasets to groups that you are not a part of

[Joshua Tauberer]

Just adding one more data point-

After we upgraded hub.healthdata.gov from CKAN 1.7 to the latest CKAN 2 
on master a few months ago, existing groups were migrated forward to the 
new groups but without any user members. So no user could add datasets 
to groups. Or add users to groups. (We do this entirely through the 
API.) We had to create a sysadmin account on the command line and then 
use the API to script adding an admin user to each group. The surprise 
created a small project emergency.

Maybe just something to mention in the docs.

Josh

On 05/07/2013 07:09 AM, Toby Dacre wrote:
>
>
> On 7 May 2013 11:44, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org 
> <mailto:adria.mercader at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Frank,
>
>     demo.ckan.org <http://demo.ckan.org> seems to be running a quite
>     old version of ckan. I get
>     the exact behaviour that you are describing in beta.ckan.org
>     <http://beta.ckan.org> and the
>     latest master, so I suspect something has changed on the way.
>
>     @Tobes, @David, is there a way under the new auth to allow adding
>     datasets to groups to all users? AFAICT the "logged_in" user has no
>     effect anymore?
>
>
> there is this issue https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/872
>
> logged_in user is not used any more
>
> basically you need to be a member of a group to add datasets. I'm not 
> clear if you need a specific membership type.  But it will be the same 
> as for an org member.  the add member link is not on the templates in 
> 2.0 but is in 2.1
>
> We need to do a review of the membership stuff for groups and orgs in 
> 2.1 and make any improvements needed there was a lack of qa on this in 
> 2.0 as all the efforts went into orgs not groups
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     Adrià
>
>     On 3 May 2013 18:29, Bracco, Frank - FIN
>     <Frank.Bracco at houstontx.gov <mailto:Frank.Bracco at houstontx.gov>>
>     wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > I was hoping to get some feedback here. The City of Houston and
>     Code for
>     > Houston are trying to implement an open data portal for the
>     region. The
>     > gameplan we’re discussing is for each government entity to be an
>     > organization with its own permissions while groups would be
>     topical areas
>     > (like GIS, Environmental, Public Safety, etc.) and Departmental
>     based
>     > catalogs of the datasets. Anyone in any of the organizations (or
>     not in an
>     > organization who happens to have an account) could add their
>     dataset to any
>     > one of the groups. In the CKAN demo site, any user can add a
>     dataset to a
>     > group:
>     >
>     > ·         See this dataset I added to the CKAN4RDM-test group:
>     > http://demo.ckan.org/dataset/test14
>     >
>     > ·         You can also see I’m not a member of that group (there
>     is only one
>     > member): http://demo.ckan.org/group/members/ckan4rdm-test
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Over on our installation, however, I cannot add datasets to
>     groups that
>     > weren’t created by me (http://data.codeforhouston.com). We’ve
>     tried adding
>     > logged_in as an editor and admin to the groups, but that doesn’t
>     seem to be
>     > solving the problem. Is there some sort of patch that needs to
>     be added or
>     > default setting in a config file that needs to be changed. I
>     know there is
>     > an outstanding issue to make it easier to find the permissions
>     page for
>     > groups (https://github.com/okfn/ckan/issues/844) but that still
>     doesn’t seem
>     > to add the problem we’re experiencing over on our side.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Thanks for any feedback you might be able to provide,
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Frank C. Bracco
>     >
>     > City of Houston
>     >
>     > Finance Department
>     >
>     > Frank.Bracco at houstontx.gov <mailto:Frank.Bracco at houstontx.gov>
>     >
>     > w:(832) 393-9093 <tel:%28832%29%20393-9093>
>     >
>     >
>     >
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