Manage Groups and Organizations

This section explains how to manage Organizations and Groups.

Adding or Editing an Organization

In order to add a new Organization in CKAN, by default you need to log into CKAN web interface as an administrator. You have to click on the ‘Organizations’ link on top of the page:

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1 - In order to edit an existing Orgainzation you have to click on the Organization’s link you want to modify:

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In order to add a new Organization you have to click on the ‘Add Organization’ button on top of the GUI section:

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We are going to edit an existing Organization (the same consideration can be did if you want to create a new Organization)

2 - Clicking on the Organization icon, a page containing a list of dataset of this organization will be shown.

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click on ‘Manage’ button in order to open the edit form for the selected organization.

3 - Into the Edit form you have the possibility enter some fields:

  • The title of the Organization
  • The description of the Organization
  • You can specify a direct URL of an existing image on the web o upload your own image to use as logo of the Organization
  • Some other extra fields are available if you need to speficy some additional information (key/valie pair) for the organization
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4 - In order to localize your Organization contents (like title and description) in ‘de’ locale, scoll at the end of the page and simply change the language from the language selector drop-down:

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Then enter you localized title and description for ‘de’ language.

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Note

In this case if you don’t have localized values in ‘de’ for this Organization, the latest edited values in the form for title and description fields will be shown.

5 - Finally click on the ‘Update Organization’ button placed on the bottom part of the form in order to save you Organization.

Adding or Editing a Group

In order to add a new Group in CKAN, you need to log into CKAN web interface as an administrator. You have to click on the ‘Groups’ link on top of the page:

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1 - In order to edit an existing Group you have to click on the Group’s link you want to modify:

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In order to add a new Group you have to click on the ‘Add a Group’ button on top of the GUI section:

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2 - Clicking on the Group’s icon, a page containing a list of dataset of this group will be shown.

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click on ‘Manage’ button in order to open the edit form for the selected group.

3 - Into the Edit form you have the possibility enter some fields:

  • The title of the Group
  • The description of the Group
  • You can specify a direct URL of an existing image on the web o upload your own image to use as logo of the Group
  • Some other extra fields are available if you need to speficy some additional information (key/valie pair) for the Group
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4 - In order to localize your Group contents (like title and description) in ‘de’ locale, scoll at the end of the page and simply change the language from the language selector drop-down:

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Then enter you localized title and description for the ‘de’ language.

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Note

In this case if you don’t have localized values in ‘de’ for this Group, the latest edited values in the form for title and description fields will be shown.

5 - Finally click on the ‘Update Group’ button placed on the bottom part of the form in order to save you Group.