Restore views

[drw]

The old data portal had a lot of maps and other things linked from various resources. Other than all those maps (mainly Carto maps) that we'd like to restore the views of, there were also a lot of views of PDF files, GeoJSON files, KML files, and various web sites that we have resource-links to. We could write a script to automatically add views for PDF/GeoJSON/KML files that are already resources, as we enable those view types; with web sites that we're linking to, I generally like to first check to see whether the web site actually renders in the CKAN "Website" view.

[Also, a few larger tables had filtered Data Tables views (because the full table would take to long to load, even though Data Tables should only be showing a small fraction of the rows). This seems to no longer be the case, so we may not need the old filtered views.]

[saylorsd]

We have a few view plugins installed:

• pdf_view
• geo_view
• text_view
• webpage_view
• image_view
• datatables_view

I second the idea for a script to generate views (if we there aren't any) for these resources. There's a wonderfully-documented CLI command, that might be of use.

[saylorsd]

https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.10/maintaining/configuration.html#ckan-views-default-views

[drw]

There's more documentation on the ckan views create command here: https://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/data-viewer.html

You can do things like

> ckan views create pdf_view

to create PDF views for all PDF resources.

[drw]

I created a script for inventorying resource views: https://github.com/WPRDC/viewmaster

[drw]

Many views were automatically added with the ckan views create command. Others were manually added. Found resources without formats and corrected those and added appropriate views. Still to do:

• Review GeoJSON resources without views and fix them (adding geo_view and datatable_view, where possible).
• Look at remaining ESRI Rest and KML views.