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