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Reported by shevski, 2 years ago.

Various UX and UI improvements to groups.

Etherpad: ​http://ckan.okfnpad.org/feature-1521-groups-ux

Improved groups

From Richard Cyganiak.

This is a set of proposals to make the groups feature more powerful. As a result, currently separate CKAN instances such as ​http://ie.ckan.net/ could be turned into a simple group on the ​Data Hub without losing their separate identity.

• Group homepages: Make the group pages more attractive and welcoming as homepages. The main Data Hub homepage does a great job at this now – can the group pages be made more like that? They're quite uninformative and bland right now.
• Subdomains for groups: Enable subdomains such as ie.thedatahub.org as aliases for thedatahub.org/group/ireland
• Search within the group: Have a big search box that searches just within the group on the group page, with a look like on ​http://thedatahub.org/dataset
• Have an Add a dataset to this group link on the group page, perhaps in the sidebar.
• Navigation within the group: Have some more navigation starting points on the group page, e.g., the Tags + Resource Format sidebar from ​http://thedatahub.org/dataset
• Group documentation: Add the ability to add more “About this group” text, or pages like “FAQ” and “Extra field conventions”.
  • The only place where one can currently put group-specific text is before the dataset list. Putting much text there is bad as it moves the datasets below the fold.
  • Can the top-level sections of a group's description be automatically turned into separate pages that are linked from the sidebar? With headlines About, Frequently Asked Questions and How to get involved, we'd then get three links in the sidebar that point to datahub.org/group/ireland/about, datahub.org/group/ireland/frequently-asked-questions, datahub.org/group/ireland/how-to-get-involved
    • RP: WONTFIX this is being considered for future (generally useful) but cost/benefit here was low particularly as it wasn't clear what optimal implementation was.

Additional

• Display members of a group as well as admins (if less than 10? If more than 10 display count only ...?)
• Better group index page (sort by number of dataset, allow searching ...) - #1403
  • Add search to groups: ​http://thedatahub.org/group
  • Way to filter by activity, number of datasets
• #1597 Tag search, filtered by group
  • RP: not worth it in terms of benefit/cost IMO

Steps

• "Add Dataset" button on action bar
  • Make it a dropdown? -> New Dataset / Existing Dataset
  • Redirect Add Existing -> Edit
  • Check permissions
• Expandable "about this group" box
• Implement simplest search-this-group box
  • turn the list of datasets into a dynamic list of search results
    • pagination
  • Matching set of facets in the sidebar (matches 'real' search page)
    • Deleteable, displayed facets

Nice-To-Have

• Get rid of the old group_package_show action (confirm with team)
• Tabbed "about this group" box (extract headers?)
• Scrollable group members widget in the sidebar

Reported by rgrp, 3 years ago.

List of improvements to CKAN documentation (result of ticket:904). Should convert most items into sub-tickets as we go along.

Major

• (Make blog.ckan.org into ckan.org and move ckan.org to trac.ckan.org/)
• Document caching system - ticket:841
• Howto guide for writing an extension - started on this at ​http://wiki.ckan.net/Extending_CKAN

Miscellaneous

• Contributors / credits page: ticket:928
• (Data proxy documentation: move it to packages.python.org/dataproxy)
• (List dataapi extensions on http://ckan.org/wiki/Extensions (Name, summary string + point to pypi page ...))
• Document license configuration and license system - ticket:973
• Refactor trac frontpage moving general feature overview to ckan.org
• Create proper roadmap information on ​http://trac.ckan.org/
• Add link to wiki.ckan.net to ckan.org

Reported by rgrp, 3 years ago.

Child tickets:

• #1041 Start Using the CKAN Wiki for Tutorial-style documentation
• #1192 Convert CKAN Sphinx docs into admin/reference manual

Previous super ticket (from 3m ago): ​http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/927

• CKAN 1-page overview (for enterprise and for data hackers)
• Administrator's Guide (including install)
• Extensions Guide
• Separate CKAN.net info from Software Documentation (?)

Also now a wiki page with more detail: ​http://wiki.ckan.net/Documentation_Plans

Minor Items