[CKAN-support] South Australia - Issue with creating new datasets [DLM=For-Official-Use-Only]

Tue May 7 23:53:43 UTC 2013

For Official Use Only
Hi Darwin,
  I tried again and have done a screenshot capture with commentary for you to step through (attached).

Gavin,
  I am confident in you all re solving this, but must reiterate that I need this fixed urgently.  I have a meeting with the "Unleashed" committee today and I don't expect they will be too happy with progress re data capture.

Thanks,
  Peter

From: Darwin Peltan [mailto:darwin.peltan at okfn.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 8 May 2013 12:50 AM
To: Marshall, Peter (OCIO)
Cc: support at ckan.org; Gavin Chait; Toby Dacre
Subject: South Australia - Issue with creating new datasets

Hi Peter,

We've been looking into the issue you reported about creating new datasets (email pasted below for reference).

We've been looking into it today but we haven't been able to recreate the issue on staging or live (I created one test dataset on live and have deleted it now)

Datasets get set as DRAFT unless all three steps of "add dataset" process have been completed. From your email it sounds like you had trouble when adding a resource. Would it be possible for you us to have a quick call tomorrow morning where I watch you trying to upload a new dataset and I can see what's happening?

Would 08:30 BST/17:00 local time work for you? We can use the conference call details below.

08 7123 2361 (Adelaide number)
Access code: 133591

Best,

Darwin

[1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=20130508T0830&p1=2245&p2=5

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Hi Gavin,

Thanks for fixing this.

I have another problem now!  I've resumed adding entries since the migration.  Initially I updated many of the existing entries to fix a few inconsistencies in what I entered.  The entries all seemed to update successfully.

Then I tried to add some NEW entries and the problem is they don't change from DRAFT status to be properly released.

I entered the first template information (titles etc) and then was presented with the second template (resource) to upload or link to the datasets.  I have done one of each to see if either worked......Dog Registrations (UPLOAD) and Election Ephemera (LINK).  Once I had entered the relevant information in the resource template I pressed "next:additional information".  Instead of progressing to the third screen, it revisited the second screen template (empty) as if I wished to add a second resource.  If I pressed "next:additional information" a second time it did in fact move on to the third template where I completed that information and then pressed "finish".  I was returned to the datasets screen where [draft] was displayed after the datasets name.  I couldn't work out how I could change the status and when eventually I left the new entry, i.e. went to view all datasets I could no longer access the new entry.  Ii seems to still be draft.  I'm trying to remember if there was a way to change this (i.e. 'release' the entry) external to the front end??

At one stage I tried "save and add another" resource rather than "next :additional information" to see if it would store the information.  It didn't make any apparent difference although the first time I tried to upload Dog Registrations several times I was presented with multiple copies of the resource, where I proceeded to delete the extra copies.  I don't know how I got into that screen where I could delete them.  This still didn't help me when I left the draft and went to view all datasets, where the new ones weren't displayed.

Hope that explains the problem adequately.

Regards,

  Peter

Darwin Peltan
Project Manager

The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org

Skype: darwinp
Twitter: @darwin
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