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CoVE is an web application to Convert, Validate and Explore data following certain open data standards - including 360Giving, Open Contracting Data Standard, IATI and the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard
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Explain download spreadsheet with titles after conversion from JSON #551

Closed robredpath closed 7 years ago

robredpath commented 7 years ago

It's potentially confusing that there are two 'download spreadsheet' links after conversion from JSON. We should add some explanatory text about what 'with titles' means.

robredpath commented 7 years ago

Internal issue 8340

edugomez commented 7 years ago

@robredpath I'm unable to reproduce this. Do you have a JSON file that on conversion generates 2 spreadsheet downloads, so I can see it?

Bjwebb commented 7 years ago

We've lost the second link because this if statement isn't true: https://github.com/OpenDataServices/cove/blob/master/cove_360/templates/cove_360/explore.html#L325, when it should be https://github.com/OpenDataServices/cove/blob/master/cove_360/settings.py#L45

edugomez commented 7 years ago

@Bjwebb thanks, will fix that

edugomez commented 7 years ago

@Bjwebb What are those titles for? Can't work it out. What should we say as explanatory text to differentiate between the two downloads?

caprenter commented 7 years ago

@stevieflow @timgdavies I'm just wondering whether or not we need to do this or not. The issue is that CoVE will present users with a 'choice' of spreadsheet downloads if you provide 360Giving JSON. i.e. you can have a spreadsheet with either titles or fields as column headers (this is not well explained tho).

I think we've lost this distinction in the documentation/website - titles is the one 'everyone uses'. And links from http://www.threesixtygiving.org/standard/reference/ to the spreadsheet template only give people a direct download of the titles spreadsheet (whereas before you got to github and had to choose)

So I think rather than offer the user 2 versions, and have to try to explain why they are different, just offer the titles.

Any reason not to? It does make it hard for people to get a fields version (including ourselves) - although you can get it if you run flatten tool yourself. Any other reasons - what do you think?

timgdavies commented 7 years ago

I would agree that we have moved very clearly towards titles in the case of 360 Giving, so the simplest option is just to offer 'Titles'

If we do offer the version with fields, it could be offered as an 'advanced' option (small text / or link to 'alternative formats' or something) because we can assume that users who want the fields version already understand what they are looking for...