Custom Query (2152 matches)

Reported by dread, 2 years ago.

We want to make email announcements to users of thedatahub.org.

The most simple way to do this is to get a dump of the email addresses and subscribe/invite them to a mailman list.

Different ways to do it:

• 'paster dump-users-csv' creates a CSV file. Apache serves up the directory using password protection. Is this secure enough?
• CKAN admin pages provides a button to produce the CSV and download it. A config option may be necessary to enable this (disabled by default).

Something more advanced in the future could be:

• CKAN tells mailman about new subscribers using the mailman web interface. Could be brittle.
• Mailman doesn't have an Internet API, but it does have a python interface. So CKAN could tell mailman about new subscribers using a python proxy. There may be one out there, or maybe easy to do. But annoying to have to maintain another process running on machine.
• CKAN sends out the emails itself. A sysadmin is given a form. Users have an opt in/out option in their account. But receiving emails is a sensitive thing so it would need to be right first time, and there are several risks to this approach.

Reported by icmurray, 2 years ago.

• On the resources tab, there's a "Check Resources" button which, when clicked makes an ajax request with the list of URLs entered by the user.

• The server checka each link for errors and header information about the linked resource. (Using ckanext/archiver/tasks.py:link_checker()).

• The server returns a list of dicts (json), containing information about the linked resource, and the client uses that to:

• populate the format field of each resource

The (guessed) 'file_extension' populates the 'format' field. If it's 'htm' or 'html', then we assume it's a listing page, and so don't populate the format field with 'htm' or 'html'.

• provide feedback if a URL appears to be invalid

If the URL doesn't appear to be a URL at all, or returns a HTTP error, or times-out, then URL field is highlighted in red to indicate it's a bad URL. A tooltip shows the error message to the user.

• [Optional] provide feedback if a URL appears to point to "Additional Information" - ie the Resource should be entered under "Additional Resources", rather than "Timeseries" or "Individual" datasets.

Analysis and further description on etherpad: ​http://ckan.okfnpad.org/dgu-package-form? [Section I]

Reported by icmurray, 2 years ago.

CKAN provides the /data page page of data.gov.uk

Breakdown of tasks:

• [x] Analysis / refinement of spec.
• [x] Log-in / register as publisher

(Waiting on publisher form)

• [x] Population of "browse by publisher"

list groups ordered by most datasets (Waiting on publisher integration)

• [ ] Browse by nation
• [ ] Featured datasets

Now a possible integration point with drupal

• [X] Tag cloud
• [X] Developers section