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Can I use another database instead of PostgreSQL in CKAN?
No, the only currently supported database backend is PostgreSQL. It was chosen as it is an open source, well supported and widely available solution.
Support for other backends would need to be added ...
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Are the API keys on data.gov considered sensitive?
There are some API limits tied to a specific API key. If a third-party used your key, their calls would effect how many calls you can make.
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Alternation ("OR") searching
AFAIK, at least one : should be used in order to enable advanced search on CKAN:
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=title:abracadabra+OR+crime+OR+court+OR+justice+OR+pretrial
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Versions of CKAN datasets and its resources
Revisioning in CKAN is something that needs to be refactored and that is currently not exposed via the UI but internally objects are being revisioned and assigned a revision_id, including resources, ...
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CKAN - ckanext-scheming - Add dataset button
You can override the template snippets/add_dataset.html if you just want to have multiple add buttons.
Here is what you can do (tested on CKAN 2.8.3):
{# Adds 'Add Dataset' button #}
{% set ...
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Official Help and Support on customising CKAN
Typically the best place for support with software is the software's website. Did you try visiting CKAN's site?
At first glance, there's a link in the top navigation called "Support", so that's where ...
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Download CKAN Revisions
In this case, 2538d7f1-391b-4733-90b3-9e95cd5f3ea6 is a resource ID, not a revision ID. In CKAN, package(dataset) contains multiple resources and each of resources contain either actual data(file) or ...
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CKAN Hierarchy extension breaks the home page
The problem is that the CKAN Hierarchy Extension does not work with CKAN 2.8 and higher. It has nothing to do with the installed Scheming Extension, nor the way it was configured.
The issue is ...
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Not able to view private datasets in CKAN using Nginx
Well done on this issue / question. It's more succinct than before and focuses more closely on 1 problem. I'll focus on your 3 issues together as they seem to be interrelated.
You're right, I think ...
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Solr not working while running CKAN over HTTPs using nginx and apache
You cannot reach solr from ckan because they are running in two different container on the same virtual network.
If you run a container, a bridged network will be created by default.
$ hostname -i
::...
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How can we install CKAN on Windows using IDE?
Windows is not a supported platform for the service, according to the documentation.
However, if you must have a Windows machine, you can follow the Docker compose installation guide that CKAN ...
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CKAN - Find and add tags to multiple datasets can this be done?
Yes, you can search all datasets that contain the word "agua" using the package_search API action, eg http://demo.ckan.org/api/3/action/package_search?q=agua
Once you have them you can either:
For ...
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Querying CKAN in Python using ckanapi
For some reason, the above solution has not worked for me. I tried data.gov catalog and used the same code as below:
import ckanapi
ckan = ckanapi.RemoteCKAN('https://catalog.data.gov')
search_params ...
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Is there any way to get a package's resource's field names/datatypes with downloading the entire resource?
If the site in question has enabled it, the CKAN's Datastore allows you to query tabular data directly via additional API functions. In your case you would probably use the datastore_info function to ...
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