[okfn-labs] Open Research Timeliner

[Rufus Pollock]

I agree it's a UX nightmare. The challenge previously was having to
use JSONP which meant you didn't get a good error message. However,
that is now changed and I believe one gets a 400 error so something
could be reported. Time to file an issue on: the Recline GDocs
backend: <https://github.com/Recline/backend.gdocs>!

Regards,

Rufus

On 26 February 2013 22:44, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> This part of Google Spreadsheets is a UX nightmare.  If a user "shares" but
> doesn't "publish" a spreadsheet, they get a URL which works fine everywhere
> except in the API.  They can email it to folks, have them open it, etc, but
> it won't work places like OpenRefine (or presumably TimeLiner).
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> The spreadsheet was not *published* (see File => Publish to Web). I've
>> done this now.
>>
>> You could, if you wish, file a bug on timeliner about the fact that it
>> doesn't notify you of the problem if your sheet is not published (it's
>> somewhat hard to do so but a major UX issue ...)
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> On 26 February 2013 18:34, Velichka Dimitrova
>> <velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > Hey,
>> >
>> > I have been trying to load the spreadsheet done by one of our sprint
>> > participants in the timeliner, but have had no success so far.
>> >
>> > Does anybody know what the problem might be?
>> >
>> > Here is the link to the spreadsheet.
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>> >
>> >
>> > Velichka Dimitrova
>> > Open Economics Project Coordinator
>> > Open Knowledge Foundation
>> > http://okfn.org | http://openeconomics.net
>> >
>> >
>> >
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