[OpenSpending] Doubts about compounds variables and drilldown in levels

[José Félix Ontañon]

2012/7/21 Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>:
> Dear Jose,
>
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:16 PM, José Félix Ontañon
> <fontanon at emergya.com> wrote:
>> So, in my dataset[1], 'Spending area' (or 'area') is the level at the
>> top, then 'entity', 'program', and 'concept' as the last level.
>> I'm afraid I don't know how fix the fields, at the dimensions editor,
>> to get that drilldown in three levels behaviour. Which column must be
>> set as id? how do I set the hierarchy area -> entity -> program ->
>> concept?
>
> OpenSpending doesn't know about hierarchies per se. The links in the
> UK CRA dataset are set in the "Views" config, and I've added a
> configuration similar to that to your dataset. Unfortunately, this
> requires the dimensions to be "Compound Dimensions" (or just
> "Dimensions" in the UI). So you need to drop your data and change the
> model to make entity, program and concept into compound dimensions.
>
> Let me know if that helps,

Got it! Finally it was a matter of playing with compound dimensions
and views, just as you told me.

Work is done, dataset for the city of Seville is finished.
Thanks Friedrich.

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J. Félix Ontañón Carmona
Emergya Consultoría