ckanext-hierarchy - Organization hierarchy for CKAN

Organizations can be arranged into a tree hierarchy.

This new hierarchical arrangement of organizations is displayed using templates in this extension, instead of the usual list:

Provides a new field on the organization edit form to select a parent organization:

When viewing an organization you see its context within the tree in the side bar. In addition you can widen search of the organization's datasets to include datasets in sub-organizations too:

Technical details

Templates:

• /organization - now shows the organization hierarchy instead of list
• /organization/about/{id} - now also shows the relevant part of the hierarchy

Snippets (used by hierarchy and ckanext-scheming):

• /scheming/form_snippets/org_hierarchy.html

In order to make hierarchy work with ckanext-scheming you need to enable hierarchy and then use corresponding form_snippet in your org_schema. For example, you may add next field:

{
    "field_name": "not_used",
    "label": "Parent organization",
    "display_snippet": null,
    "form_snippet": "org_hierarchy.html",
    "validators": "ignore_missing"
}

Optionally one could also specify a full name and leave the field 'title' for the short name or acronym (more convenient for display).

{
    "field_name": "longname",
    "label": "Full Name",
    "validators": "ignore_missing unicode",
    "form_snippet": "large_text.html",
    "form_attrs": {"data-module": "slug-preview-target"},
    "form_placeholder": "My Organization full name",
    "display_snippet": null
}

TODO:

• make the trees prettier with JSTree

Requirements

This extension requires CKAN v2.8 or later.

Installation

To install ckanext-hierarchy:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

   . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
   

2. Install the ckanext-hierarchy Python package into your virtual environment:

   cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src
   pip install -e "git+https://github.com/davidread/ckanext-hierarchy.git#egg=ckanext-hierarchy"
   pip install -r ckanext-hierarchy/requirements.txt
   

3. Add hierarchy to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (by default the config file is located at /etc/ckan/default/production.ini).

4. Restart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:

    sudo service apache2 reload
   

Config settings

None at present

Tests

To run the tests, do::

pytest --ckan-ini=test.ini ckanext/hierarchy/tests

Licence and copyright

This module is openly licensed with AGPLv3 - see LICENSE file.

Copyright belongs to commit authors. Commits 2013-2017 by @davidread are Crown Copyright.