ckanext-wirecloud_view 1.1.0

Provide visualization dashboards on CKAN using WireCloud

CKAN WireCloud dashboards

CKAN view extension for the creation and display of resource data visualization dashboards through WireCloud embbeded dashboards.

With this extension you can create a view for a resource using WireCloud. You can set the view to load an existing dashboard or create a custom dashboard from the view form.

Requirements

You need the Oauth2 extension for CKAN in order to make this extension work.

Installation

To install ckanext-wirecloud_view:

1. Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:

   . /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
   

2. Install the ckanext-wirecloud_view Python package into your virtual environment:

   pip install ckanext-wirecloud_view
   

3. Add wirecloud_view to the ckan.plugins setting in your CKAN config file (e.g. /etc/ckan/default/production.ini).

4. Add proper values for the ckan.wirecloud_view.url and ckan.wirecloud_view.editor_dashboard settings in your CKAN config file:

   # URL of the WireCloud instance to use for creating the dashboards
   ckan.wirecloud_view.url = https://mashup.lab.fiware.org
   
   # ID of the dashboard/workspace to use for creating new visualization dashboards
   ckan.wirecloud_view.editor_dashboard = wirecloud/ckan-editor
   

5. Restart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with Apache:

   sudo service apache2 graceful
   

Development Installation

To install ckanext-wirecloud_view for development, activate your CKAN virtualenv and do:

git clone https://github.com/conwetlab/ckanext-wirecloud_view.git
cd ckanext-wirecloud_view
python setup.py develop