[OpenSpending] Removing data sources from the Meta profile

Mon Sep 10 18:31:19 UTC 2012

Hi Maurice,

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Maurice McNaughton
<mlmcnaughton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thx for the response.. being able to make data sources hideable will do. We
> are using OpenSpending to facilitate discussions both with Government
> officials & Media about budget transparency initiatives, so have setup a
> demo site using the OpenSpending visualization widgets (See
> http://caribbeanopeninstitute.org/gojbudget_Functions). We wanted to also
> include the Search option (http://openspending.org/goj-budget-2012/entries)
> to enable the viewer to retrieve line item details or download the data if
> necessary, so wanted to make sure that the data shown on the Meta screen was
> relevant / explainable.

If you're going to make your own demo site, you may want to consider
adapting the code we use to include the search on
http://data.gov.uk/openspending - it's available here:
https://github.com/openspending/data.gov.uk-spending but still
requires a few bits of manual adaptation to become adaptable. This
will also allow you to configure the set of visible columns, by
passing in an appropriate configuration to the table (see
https://github.com/openspending/cameroon.openspending.org/blob/gh-pages/en/nwregion.html#L110
for a semi-applicable example).

Unfortunately, we don't currently support adding more tabs to the main
page on your dataset. Hidden views are technically possible but not
yet accessible from the interface - I should sit down and make that
happen!

Hope this helps!

- Friedrich

> Brings me to a couple other question, are there customization options that
> allow you to:
> a) customize the columns displayed on the Search screen? (it only displays
> Time/Amount by default, would be nice to display other attribute fields
> instead of having to click Details)
> b) can experimental visualizations be hidden from this view?
> c) Can additional tabs be added to the Search | About | Visualisations
> screen that contain additional custom visuals/queries?
>
> Rgds,
> Mlm
>
>  view that can combine
>>
>> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 11:35:24 +0200
>> From: Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>
>> Subject: Re: [OpenSpending] Removing data sources from the Meta
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>> Dear Maurice,
>>
>> great to hear you're using OS! The idea behind these sources is that
>> they provide a kind of audit trail of where the loaded data came from,
>> so we've decided to make them permanent. There is an outstanding
>> ticket to make them at least hideable
>> (https://github.com/openspending/openspending/issues/413) - so its on
>> our todo. Until then, I don't think they do any *major* damage but I
>> agree they are a nuisance.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>  - Friedrich
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Maurice McNaughton
>> <mlmcnaughton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > In developing a Dataset on the OpenSpending platform, one typically has
>> > to
>> > work through several iterations and versions of the data sources before
>> > getting it right. These source data files all remain as listings in the
>> > meta
>> > profile of the dataset. Is there a way to remove those data sources that
>> > are
>> > no longer relevant?
>> >
>> > Rgds,
>> > Mlm
>> >
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