[okfn-labs] Open Research Timeliner

Wed Feb 27 14:19:20 UTC 2013

It's really a Google Spreadsheets bug/limitation.  You should be able to
access a public spreadsheet through the API even if it hasn't been
"published" but they draw this weird distinction between sharing publicly
and actually "publishing" when most people consider them the same thing.

Tom

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> 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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