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Unable to create vis #123

Closed GilesGibson closed 10 years ago

GilesGibson commented 10 years ago

live site logged on as gilesgibson

trying to create a vis based on recycling dataset. It is hanging at this stage:

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may be due to background software updates happening but not sure @djwesto @dataunity ?

dataunity commented 10 years ago

@GilesGibson Can you copy in the exact dataset name that you used please?

If it is the 'Recycling banks' banks dataset, it looks like you (or someone else) have deleted it from the CKAN, so naturally we can't visualise from it any more.

By the way, to get more details about errors you can you look at the 'Console' tab in the javascript debugger - it looks like there are 7 error messages there (shown by the red cross on the right hand side of the screenshot). Scroll through the list and you should see some messages in red.

GilesGibson commented 10 years ago

Ah, maybe that explains it. However, it still appears in COD as a dataset that is available. I presume therefore that it is not synced with the source at all. I can add it back to CKAN and then do another import into COD but that then means we will have one phantom "dataset" in COD and one real one. This will only end in tears.

dataunity commented 10 years ago

In terms of syncing - CKAN makes a unique id for a dataset's file (resource) when it creates it, so even if we put a copy of the dataset into CKAN with exactly the same name as before, it wouldn't sync up with the dataset in COD unfortunately.

In terms of removing datasets from COD, we have an issue for this: https://github.com/folklabs/communitydata/issues/80. It's awaiting an action to list all the datasets that need removing, so 'Recycling Banks' should probably also be included.

I'll close this as it looks like we have an explanation for the issue mentioned.