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Show datasets aggregated by institution/variable #100

Open marceloandrioni opened 6 years ago

marceloandrioni commented 6 years ago

Hello again, in ncWMS/Godiva2 it was possible to show different datasets inside a single folder using the menu keyword (http://localhost:8080/ncWMS/godiva2.html?menu=mydatasets) and creating a file webapps/ncWMS/WEB-INF/jsp/mydatasetsMenu.jsp selecting how the datasets should be aggregated. My question is if it is possible to do the same in ncWMS2? On my part I thought this was very usefull mainly because of two reason: 1) one could aggregate several datasets by institution (as show in the image below) or by variable (e.g. all SST from NASA, NOAA, numerical models in the same folder) facilitating access by the user; 2) one could using the same ncWMS server create distinct websites for distinct user (e.g. I had a "layman" site only with superficial currents and a "metocean" site with all the variables a specialist could use). Thanks.

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guygriffiths commented 6 years ago

Currently this is not possible in ncWMS2. I don't have a great deal of time to work on implementing new features at the moment, and it's not a trivial task to do. However, I've tagged it as a possible Enhancement, and I'll bear it in mind if I get further time to work on extra features (or if I can find another project using ncWMS2 where this would be a useful feature)

marceloandrioni commented 6 years ago

Ok, thanks, glad to know it is a possibility in the future.