http://localhost/ticket/2961 <p> Users could write ckan extensions that offer previews for a certain datatype. </p> <p> Advantages: </p> <ul><li>We can say that you can add your own previews </li><li>Every preview would have to define it's own dependencies </li><li>External development (community creates new extensions?) </li></ul><p> Questions to answer: </p> <ul><li>Specification of the interface </li><li>Precedence of previews for the same data types </li><li>Plugins only define the datatype that they are responsible for or do we call a function that returns whether the extension is responsible. </li></ul><p> As far as I can see, this should be fairly easy to implement by following these instructions: <a class="ext-link" href="http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/writing-extensions.html#writing-a-plugin-interface"><span class="icon">​</span>http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/writing-extensions.html#writing-a-plugin-interface</a> </p> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/2961 Trac 0.12.3 dominik Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:30:52 GMT http://localhost/ticket/2961#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/2961#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>description</strong> modified (<a href="/ticket/2961?action=diff&amp;version=1">diff</a>) </li> </ul> Ticket dominik Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:33:10 GMT http://localhost/ticket/2961#comment:2 http://localhost/ticket/2961#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>owner</strong> set to <em>dominik</em> </li> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>assigned</em> </li> </ul> Ticket