[ECODP-dev] Query regarding CKAN and Drupal integration

Darwin Peltan darwin.peltan at okfn.org
Wed Feb 6 11:08:32 UTC 2013


Hi Girts,

I agree iframe would be bad practice. Does the menu API already exist? If
so please can you send some details so we can look into how much work would
be needed to integrate into CKAN.

Thanks,

Darwin

Darwin Peltan
Project Manager

The Open Knowledge Foundation
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On 6 February 2013 10:20, Girts Niedra <girts.niedra at tenforce.com> wrote:

> Guess they are suggesting to use an i-frame - so that the menu is defined
> only in one place. This is quite bad practice imho in general.
>
> "The only possible difference is that changes to the top navigation that
> are made in Drupal won't show in the top navigation within the data
> section?"
> This is indeed their problem - but we created a small API from Drupal
> which exposes the menus and the translations for automated integration (for
> now a manual process afaik).
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Darwin Peltan <darwin.peltan at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi Bert,
>>
>> The comment below has come up from Agnieska as something she'd like to
>> discuss tomorrow.
>>
>> *The synchronization between drupal and ckan as regards the possibility
>> to edit content on tabs like home, applications, linked data (when we want
>> to modify the content of those tabs, while navigating from “Data” tab to
>> modified tab we still find the old content). What we’ve heard is that it’s
>> linked to using/not using I-frame.*
>>
>> As far as I'm aware there is no caching of content on the CMS pages. The
>> only possible difference is that changes to the top navigation that are
>> made in Drupal won't show in the top navigation within the data section?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Darwin
>>
>> Darwin Peltan
>> Project Manager
>>
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://www.okfn.org
>>
>> Skype: darwinp
>> Twitter: @darwin
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