[openspending-dev] Launching OS for Oakland, Calif.

Fri Mar 29 08:56:07 UTC 2013

Hi Adam,

Just to be clear, OpenSpending is a community-focussed project and we're
delighted to have questions posted here when people are trying to get
something working themselves and are very happy to help - so please keep
asking!

Community questions which come in via the mailing list we may take a little
longer to get to than work which we have concrete SLAs for from a project
we've been contracted to do, but we will try and answer them in good time.

Really looking forward to seeing the Oakland project come off and if there
is anything we can do to help it happen, please let me know :)

Lucy

On 28 March 2013 15:44, Adam Stiles <adam.d.stiles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Stefan.
>
> And my apologies if I'm asking for too much help. It's not clear from the
> outside what level of support OS devs can/can't offer (maybe worth
> documenting somewhere), nor how one would hire someone to get more help
> (also worth explaining if that's an option). I initially began using this
> list when an OS team member told me to direct tech questions here.
>
> In our case, this is a volunteer project with no budget, but if we had a
> clear idea of what services are available, we could then consider raising
> funds for that; otherwise, I'm just looking for support through trial and
> error.
>
> Thanks for all your help so far.
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Stefan Wehrmeyer <
> stefan.wehrmeyer at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> you need to set the height of your widget to an absolute amount > 0 (100%
>> doesn't work, try 400px).
>>
>> If you need further guidance, consider hiring one of the OpenSpending
>> devs to help in building the Oakland site.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stefan
>>
>> On 28.03.2013, at 02:37 , Adam Stiles <adam.d.stiles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello -- I've followed Stefan's instructions below but treemap still
>> not displaying on this page -- and no errors are detected. Any suggestions
>> greatly appreciated:
>> http://openbudgetoakland.org/draft/oak11-13adopted.html
>> >
>> > THANKS.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Stefan Wehrmeyer <
>> stefan.wehrmeyer at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Adam,
>> >
>> > you already created a Treemap visualisation here:
>> >
>> >
>> http://openspending.org/oakland_adopted_budget_fy2011-12/views/test-treemap
>> >
>> > Have a look at the source code for the embed site:
>> >
>> >
>> http://openspending.org/oakland_adopted_budget_fy2011-12/embed?widget=treemap&state=%7B%22drilldowns%22%3A%5B%22Department%22%2C%22Program%22%5D%2C%22year%22%3A2011%2C%22cuts%22%3A%7B%7D%7D&width=700&height=400
>> >
>> > So on the JavaScript part there is:
>> >  - jQuery
>> >  - openspendingjs/prod/boot.js
>> >  - some configuration to OpenSpending (scriptRoot, separators)
>> >  - openspendingjs/lib/widgets.js
>> >  - openspendingjs/app/bob/bob.js
>> >  - openspendingjs/widgets/treemap/main.js
>> >  - some simple configuration objects (state, context)
>> >  - and then just: new OpenSpending.Treemap($('#widget'), context,
>> state);
>> >
>> > Hope this helps.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Stefan
>> >
>> > On 24.03.2013, at 20:28 , Adam Stiles <adam.d.stiles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Stefan (or anyone who can help),
>> > >
>> > > As a test, I'm trying to make this data set appear in a custom site:
>> > > http://openspending.org/oakland_adopted_budget_fy2011-12
>> > >
>> > > My assumption was that I needed the OS JS file:
>> > > https://github.com/openspending/openspendingjs
>> > >
>> > > Can someone tell me:
>> > >
>> > > - What other files are needed in my directory
>> > >
>> > > - What code (html, JS, CSS) is required on the page itself to load a
>> > > treemap of that dataset (or point me to a simple example)
>> > >
>> > > At some point, it would be really useful to people creating custom
>> > > sites to have one "template" for adding treemap, bubbletree, etc.
>> > > There are many more complicated examples, but unless I'm missing it,
>> > > there doesn't seem to be a documentation or example for this basic
>> > > application.
>> > >
>> > > This post came very close, but not quite enough info for the someone
>> > > with only basic JS skills:
>> > >
>> http://openspending.org/blog/2013/03/20/How-to-Embed-Open-Spending-Databases-to-Your-Own-Website.html
>> > >
>> > > Thanks!
>> > >
>> > > Adam
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >>
>> > >> Then it's just a matter of glueing the widgets and custom maps
>> together.
>> > >> Unfortunately, currently the widgets are only documented through
>> example use, not through tutorials
>> > >>
>> > >> Here's another example of using the treemap and datatable I recently
>> built for Berlin:
>> > >> https://github.com/okfde/haushaltberlin/
>> > >> http://okfde.github.com/haushaltberlin/
>> > >>
>> > >> To make a custom site using the OpenSpending API and widgets, you
>> need to have a certain proficiency in JavaScript and be ready to read some
>> code.
>> > >>
>> > >>> - How do I make each level (click) on the visual generate a unique
>> URL (or whatever is required to have comments specific to each level of the
>> visual)?
>> > >>
>> > >> You can use #! URLs according to the Disqus Docs:
>> > >>
>> http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/472107-using-disqus-on-ajax-sites
>> > >>
>> > >> Cheers
>> > >> Stefan
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Adam Stiles
>> > > 510.280.4862
>> > >
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