eea.daviz 4.0

EEA DaViz

EEA Daviz product

EEA DaViz is a plone product which uses Exhibit to lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities (facets), with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations like these examples can be seen at http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit.

Contents

Contents

• EEA Daviz product

• Contents

• Introduction

• Main features

• Installation

• Dependecies

• Live demo

• Source code

• Copyright and license

• Links

• Funding

• Changelog

  • 4.0-dev - (2011-11-07)

  • 1.4-dev - (unreleased)

  • 1.3 - (2011-07-29)

  • 1.2 - (2011-04-07)

  • 1.1 - (2011-03-16)

  • 1.0 - (2011-03-16)

Introduction

It is simply to use, needs no desktop application, everything is done through the web by uploading an “excel file” and configure its visualisations.

See also initial project wiki page https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/projects/Zope/wiki/DaViz for the reasoning behind this project.

Main features

EEA Daviz generates different views and a customisable faceted search on CSV/TSV data uploaded in a Plone site. Just upload a CSV file under a normal Plone file and go to actions menu and click convert to exhibit view, the page will automatically refresh to edit the Exhibit view

More details about how to use this package can be found at the following link:

1. http://svn.eionet.europa.eu/projects/Zope/wiki/HowToDaviz

Installation

To install eea.daviz into the global Python environment (or a workingenv), using a traditional Zope 2 instance, you can do this:

• When you’re reading this you have probably already run easy_install eea.daviz. Find out how to install setuptools (and EasyInstall) here: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall

• If you are using Zope 2.9 (not 2.10), get pythonproducts and install it via:

  python setup.py install --home /path/to/instance

  into your Zope instance.

• Create a file called eea.daviz-configure.zcml in the /path/to/instance/etc/package-includes directory. The file should only contain this:

  <include package="eea.daviz" />

Alternatively, if you are using zc.buildout and the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe to manage your project, you can do this:

• Add eea.daviz to the list of eggs to install, e.g.:

  [buildout]
  eggs = eea.daviz

• Tell the plone.recipe.zope2instance recipe to install a ZCML slug:

  [instance]
  recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
  zcml = eea.daviz

• Re-run buildout, e.g. with:

  $ ./bin/buildout

You can skip the ZCML slug if you are going to explicitly include the package from another package’s configure.zcml file.

Dependecies

1. Plone 4.x

2. eea.exhibit

3. p4a.z2utils

4. collective.js.jqueryui

5. rdflib

Live demo

1. http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit

2. http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/national-emissions-reported-to-the-unfccc-and-to-the-eu-greenhouse-gas-monitoring-mechanism-3/national-total-excluding-lulucf/ghg_v10_extract.csv

Source code

Latest source code (Plone 4 compatible):

https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/repositories/Zope/trunk/eea.daviz/branches/plone4/

Plone 2 and 3 compatible:

https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/repositories/Zope/trunk/eea.daviz/trunk/

Copyright and license

The Initial Owner of the Original Code is European Environment Agency (EEA). All Rights Reserved.

The EEA Daviz (the Original Code) is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

More details under docs/License.txt

Links

1. Simile Wiki - Exhibit 2.0: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit

2. Simile widgets: http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit

3. EEA Daviz howto: https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/projects/Zope/wiki/HowToDaviz

4. EEA Daviz backlog wiki: https://svn.eionet.europa.eu/projects/Zope/wiki/DaViz

Funding

EEA - European Enviroment Agency (EU)

Changelog

4.0-dev - (2011-11-07)

• Feature: Added upgrade steps [voineali #4392]

• Feature: Plone 4.x compatible [ichimdav, voineali #4234]

• Feature: Added exhibit ‘properties’ dict in generated JSON [voineali 4528]

1.4-dev - (unreleased)

• Feature: Enabled daviz for eea.dataservice EEAFigureFile [voineali #4492]

1.3 - (2011-07-29)

• Feature: Added babel translator API and a custom translator: rdf-xml to exhibit-json [voineali #4416]

• Feature: Possibility to add external exhibit data sources like “Google Spreadsheet”, “RDF/XML” and “External JSON”. [voineali #4416]

• Feature: Added editable ‘Lens’ property to Tiles view in order to easily create custom Exhibit Lens Templates [voineali #4414]

• Feature: Added a way to reorder Exhibit Views [voineali #4177]

• Feature: Added a way to reorder or hide Exhibit Facets [voineali #4417]

• Feature: Possibility to add/remove facets [voineali #4416]

• Feature: Made Exibit edit page more user friendly (WYSIWYG) [voineali #4417]

• Feature: JSON Converter handles column types if specified in CSV columns header (ex: Title:lable, Year:date, etc) [voineali #4414]

• Feature: Added ‘Details’ column for ‘Tabular View’. This can be enabled/disabled in ‘Tabular View’ settings. [voineali #4419]

1.2 - (2011-04-07)

• Feature: Added edit form for generated JSON [voineali #4199]

• Feature: If column name contains “:list” exported data in JSON will pe an array [ghicaale #4199]

• Bug fix: Made exibit available for ATBlob files [voineali #4135]

• Cleanup: of pyflakes warnings [ichimdav #4141]

• Cleanup: of sensible pylint violations [ichimdav #4140]

• Feature: Added live search field as default on top [demarant, #3023]

• Change: Moved facets to the right [demarant]

• Bug fix: Fixed Google Map Key alert [voineali #4196]

• Change: Disabled Thumbnails View as it’s bugous on IE [voineali #4196]

1.1 - (2011-03-16)

• Bug fix: Removed jQuery and jQuery UI from daviz-edit.css, daviz-edit.js as they generate errors if already installed. You’ll have to manually install jQuery and jQuery UI in portal_css and portal_javascripts [voineali #4196]

1.0 - (2011-03-16)

• Initial release [voineali #2773]