[Getthedata-discuss] Related dataset "null" ?

Tue Aug 16 14:08:47 UTC 2011

On 15 August 2011 07:00, Tim McNamara <tim.mcnamara at okfn.org> wrote:
> Discovered a weird quirk today. One of Rufus's questions
> (http://getthedata.org/questions/701/average-career-length-of-male-and-female-film-stars)
> has a "related dataset" of title "null" with a hyperlink that works
> correctly. This was due to the package within thedatahub.org not
> having a title set. I've gone and fixed that. Should we worry about
> packages without a name? Perhaps use the data source URL rather than
> null?

This is a trivial fix to the javascript code being used to generate
the sidebar. That code should be deprecated in any case in favour of
the new js CKAN search widget:

<http://okfn.github.com/ckanjs/widgets/search/>

Rufus