[super] Groups UI and UX improvements in v1.6 from Cygri

[shevski]

Add search to groups: ​http://thedatahub.org/group Way to filter by activity, number of datasets; display number of users belonging to a group

First to do: analysis & user stories

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 <code>ie.thedatahub.org</code> as aliases for <code>thedatahub.org/group/ireland</code>
• 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 <code>About</code>, <code>Frequently Asked Questions</code> and <code>How to get involved</code>, we'd then get three links in the sidebar that point to <code>datahub.org/group/ireland/about</code>, <code>datahub.org/group/ireland/frequently-asked-questions</code>, <code>datahub.org/group/ireland/how-to-get-involved</code>.
• #1597 Tag search, filtered by group

Additional

• Better group index page (sort by number of dataset, allow searching ...) - #1403

[thejimmyg]

It would be nice if the new UX also made it clearer that a user has to login, before they click the "Add a group" link which currently takes them to the login page with the message "Unauthorized to create a group".