Installing ODN extension for CKAN

Introduction

The OpenDataNetwork extension provides customization for:

  • general styling
  • main page layout
  • display of items in the dataset list
  • display of item in dataset page
  • categories filtering

Hint

Ref info page at https://github.com/geosolutions-it/ckanext-odn

In this document you’ll only find specific information for installing the ODN plugin for CKAN.

It is expected that CKAN has already been properly installed and configured as described in Installing CKAN 2.5.

ODN extension

In order to install the ckanext-odn extension, copy (or clone using git) the ckanext-odn/ directory inside

Before using the plugin, the extension must be installed into the CKAN virtual environment.

As user ckan:

$ . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
(default)$ cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src
(default)$ git clone https://github.com/geosolutions-it/ckanext-odn.git
(default)$ cd ckanext-odn
(default)$ python setup.py develop

Once done, you can add the plugins that the ODN extension provides.

To enable it, edit file /etc/ckan/default/production.ini and add the plugins:

ckan.plugins = [...] odn_theme odn_harvest

Restart CKAN to make it load this new extension.

ODN configuration

Configuration for ODN in .ini file.

odn.map_link

The URL where the map link in the home page should point to. E.g.:

odn.map_link = http://www.opendatanetwork.it/tolomeo/html/servizi/cerco/cerco.html?paramPreset=Cerco