ckanext-custom_schema

A CKAN extension to customize datasets' schema. By adding custom fields to the schema, this extension allows users to provide more information about datasets.

This extension adds customized metadata fields to datasets. After enableing it, go to ${URL}/dataset/edit/${YOUR-DATASET} to edit the custom fields.

Repo Structure

This is a mono-repo. Each branch contains a customer's schema. Before doing any work, please make sure that you are on the right branch.

Dependencies

This extension is dependent on the ckanext-scheming extension. Before installing this extension, click here to install the ckanext-scheming extension.

Installation

To install, activate your CKAN virtualenv, install dependencies, and install the module in develop mode, which just puts the directory in your Python path.

. path/to/pyenv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py develop

Then in your CKAN .ini file, add custom_schema to your ckan.plugins line: Please note that the custom_schema extension needs to come before the scheming_datasets extension.

ckan.plugins = (other plugins here...) custom_schema scheming_datasets