| This CKAN Extension demonstrates some common patterns for customising a CKAN instance. | This CKAN Extension customises a CKAN instance for the hosting of data.gov.au. |
| It comprises: | It comprises: |
| * A CKAN Extension "plugin" at ``ckanext/example/plugin.py`` which, when | * A CKAN Extension "plugin" at ``ckanext/datagovau/plugin.py`` which, when |
| loaded, overrides various settings in the core ``ini``-file to provide: | loaded, overrides various settings in the core ``ini``-file to provide: |
| * A path to local customisations of the core templates and available licenses database | |
| * A path to local customisations of the core templates and stylesheets | * A custom Package edit form |
| * A "stream filter" that replaces arbitrary strings in rendered templates | * A custom n3/rdf output format |
| * A "route" to override and extend the default behaviour of a core CKAN page | |
| * A custom Pylons controller for overriding some core CKAN behaviour | |
| * A custom Package edit form | |
| * A custom Group edit form | |
| * A plugin that allows for custom forms to be used for datasets based on | |
| their "type". | |
| * A custom User registration and edition form | |
| * Some simple template customisations | |
| Installation | Installation |
| ============ | ============ |
| To install this package, from your CKAN virtualenv, run the following from your CKAN base folder (e.g. ``pyenv/``):: | To install this package, from your CKAN virtualenv, run the following from your CKAN base folder (e.g. ``pyenv/``):: |
| pip install -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-example#egg=ckanext-example | pip install -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-datagovau#egg=ckanext-datagovau |
| Then activate it by setting ``ckan.plugins = example`` in your main ``ini``-file. | Then activate it by setting ``ckan.plugins = datagovau`` in your main ``ini``-file. |
| Orientation | |
| =========== | |
| * Examine the source code, starting with ``ckanext/example/plugin.py`` | |
| * To understand the nuts and bolts of this file, which is a CKAN | |
| *Extension*, read in conjunction with the "Extension | |
| documentation": http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/extensions.html | |
| * One thing the extension does is set the values of | |
| ``extra_public_paths`` and ``extra_template_paths`` in the CKAN | |
| config, which are "documented | |
| here": http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/configuration.html#extra-template-paths | |
| * These are set to point at directories within | |
| ``ckanext/example/theme/`` (in this package). Here we: | |
| * override the home page HTML ``ckanext/example/theme/templates/home/index.html`` | |
| * provide some extra style by serving ``extra.css`` (which is loaded using the ``ckan.template_head_end`` option | |
| * customise the navigation and header of the main template in the file ``layout.html``. | |
| The latter file is a great place to make global theme alterations. | |
| It uses the _layout template_ pattern "described in the Genshi | |
| documentation":http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/GenshiTutorial#AddingaLayoutTemplate. | |
| This allows you to use Xpath selectors to override snippets of HTML | |
| globally. | |
| * The custom package edit form at ``package_form.py`` follows a deprecated | |
| way to make a form (using FormAlchemy). This part of the Example Theme needs | |
| updating. In the meantime, follow the instructions at: | |
| http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/forms.html | |
| Example Tags With Vocabularies | |
| ============================== | |
| To add example tag vocabulary data to the database, from the ckanext-example directory run: | |
| :: | |
| paster example create-example-vocabs -c <path to your ckan config file> | |
| This data can be removed with | |
| :: | |
| paster example clean -c <path to your ckan config file> | |