On organisation pages like http://52.19.159.10/organization/ancir which have descriptions longer than a sentence, descriptions are being cut off with an ellipsis at the end of the description. Should there be a 'Show more' or 'Show full description' button?

Update the following logos on home and about page:

• Remove AMI logo (?)
• Latest WB logo
• Latest OKF logo
• Add Google logo
• Add ICFJ logo

I started having this error after pulling from the current develop branch.

I suspect something went wrong while merging develop/master. @DavidLemayian

Before the merge, this error was noticed in master but not in develop. But recently, the error was brought to my knowledge by Ignatius.

To replicate the error, pull from develop, reload the server and navigate to /dataset.

I will be pushing a fix to the error soon, Or we revert the merge, fix the bug and remerge.

When sharing a dataset link, the social sharing meta tags should include a more appropriate title + description, e.g of the dataset/page title + short description.

The existing rectangular icons/logos used for all organisations on openAFRICA work fine on http://52.19.159.10/organization + http://52.19.159.10/group pages.

But on the organisation pages themselves, the new openAFRICA design uses a round space for logos which is currently cutting off the majority of the organisational logos:
http://52.19.159.10/organization/ancir
http://52.19.159.10/organization/code-for-kenya

How could we fix that?

Currently the showcases landing page doesn't give users enough information on what the page is and what to expect. We should therefore improve it by:

1. Adding a title header.
2. Adding a description of the page and what to expect.
3. Adding featured showcases that we have moderated / copy edited to stand out.

Wireframe:

The featured images on the front page show latest and upcoming events, and promotions. It would save a lot of time and effort if this were editable from the dashboard.

We should create a page showcasing the charts created by QZ Atlas for Africa team.

Roadmap:

• Link"Visualisations" section on homepage to showcase of https://www.theatlas.com/tag/atlasforafrica
• Create simple page at /atlas-for-africa with embed of https://www.theatlas.com/tag/atlasforafrica
• To align look and feel, we should make API calls instead from https://www.theatlas.com/api/tag/africa
• Because Africa is a big place, we should create a scraper that combines tags of all countries into a single JSON for our use

Read more here.

Currently, this extension does not have any test.
There is need to write test for the entire extension. This may mean splitting this issue into tasks -
Unit test, Integration test and E2E test.

• Unit tests
• Integration Test
• E2E Test

Your thoughts @DavidLemayian and @shemogumbe.

Currently:

On mobile, most of the pages are not responsive. In some cases, particularly the sidebar, there are overflowing texts. One most serious case is the /dataset page where the datasets are displayed as static white boxes.

Desired Behaviour:

The pages should be responsive with regards to the modern mobile devices.
No text overflows.
No missing or unintentionally hidden components.

Dev Notes:

Prefer vertical scrollability to horizontal scrollability: What this means is that pages should horizontally fitted to the device screen and vertically scrollable.

Screenshots:

This is /dataset page; static white boxes displayed

This is user profile page

This is /datarequest page; the sidebar

How to replicate the behavior:

Just open https://africaopendata.org on your mobile device and navigate to different pages.

Suggestions:

This issue may have to be broken into smaller tasks, to cover all areas affected.

At the top of each organisation page, there is a blue box underneath the description which should show the number of datasets that that organisation has uploaded to openAFRICA. But all the counter boxes seem to show 0 datasets even for organisations with dozens or hundreds of datasets on openAFRICA:
http://52.19.159.10/organization/ancir
http://52.19.159.10/organization/code-for-africa

Dataset counters do seem to be working fine on the http://52.19.159.10/organization page

The documentation for this extension could be better so let's add comments into the code as docstrings and inline where needed.

Add the color palette and font details to the README

Change the text on the homepage:

Africa's Largest Volunteer Driven Open Data Platform
openAFRICA aims to be largest independent repository of open data on the African continent

Optimize the layout of the content to adapt to different screen sizes

Guidelines for creating content for the showcase similar to HUM Data and https://github.com/propublica/guides/blob/master/news-apps.md

This would give users the ability to suggest a dataset that may not be available on openAFRICA and even for other users to contribute the dataset if known.

Quick suggestions:

1. Using/Re-using an already built ckan extension for this?
2. Using a forum/Zendesk like approach for this.

Currently:

When you install ckanext-datarequest on your ckan instance, it shows the button for DATAREQUEST. But once ckanext-openafrica is installed, the button is overridden.
Navigating to /datarequest show the page for requesting for dataset but the button is missing on the home page. see https://africaopendata.org/datarequest

Desired Behaviour:

A user should be able to see the datarequest button on the home page, which when clicked, should navigate to /datarequest.

Why This Issue is Important:

Without the button, the user may not have any clue that datasets can be requested for. Moreover, a user who is aware of datarequest will not have to type /datarequest but can easily navigate to the page by clicking on the button.

Notes:

• This issue can easily be handled by replicating the Suggest a dataset button shown at the bottom when no dataset is found for a user's search.
• Since ckanext-datarequest adds the button, it seems like a bug when the button does not appear after installing ckanext-openafrica

Let's also ensure there is a way to check if data requests extension is activated before it shows the link to avoid 404 in a case where it isn't
by @DavidLemayian

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Wharrathooseeee!!!

Is that linking to the right place? If so, replace http://wbi.worldbank.org/ link for World Bank logo with https://olc.worldbank.org so it doesn't have to redirect.

Here is a place holder logo until we get the full/approved one done:

Sass provides for a more streamlined approach to writing and compiling CSS. We should therefore move to using it. Cost-benefit analysis needs to be done though e.g learning curve, development process degradation, etc.

Expected behaviour or bug? http://52.19.159.10/dataset?q=health

The about template files are missing/ or have no content. i. e

http://52.19.159.10/organization/about/code-for-kenya

I think adding view counts on the packages and resources could be a good feature on ckanext-openafrica. The view count will show how many views a dataset or resource has received.

DEV NOTES:
User should be able to enable or disable the view counts from config.ini.

http://www.africaopendata.net

Greetings,

I have ckanext-openafrica running well under CKAN 2.7 in a test environment. Since they're now on version 2.9, I decided to move up one level to CKAN 2.8. Ckanext-openafrica and ckan 2.8 don't seem to get along. :)

I'm getting errors when logging into the user dashboard:

File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckanext-openafrica/ckanext/openafrica/templates/header.html", line 49, in block "header_wrapper"
   <a href="{{ h.url_for(controller='user', action='dashboard') }}">Control Panel</a>
 File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/lib/helpers.py", line 332, in url_for
   return _local_url(my_url, locale=locale, **kw)
 File "/usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/lib/helpers.py", line 537, in _local_url
   raise ckan.exceptions.CkanUrlException(error)
CkanUrlException: There is a broken url being created {'action': 'dashboard', 'controller': 'user'}

Looking at the code the error seems to be triggered triggered by this bit in function _local_url under section lines 535-539 of helpers.py, which is as follows:

if url == '/packages':
    error = 'There is a broken url being created %s' % kw
    raise ckan.exceptions.CkanUrlException(error)

return url

Any thoughts on how to get around it?

Text on homepage currently says:

Find out who and how several actors are using open data to address some of Africa's challenges
address some of Africa's challenges

Should be:
Find out who and how several actors are using open data to address some of Africa's challenges

Currently:
The README does not have any instruction on installing the extension. In fact, it ends with 'then', leaving the reader with the expectation of more details.

Should openAFRICA depend on other extensions, we should provide an easy way to define them here so that deployment is a lot more streamlined.

Currently:

When you install the Open-Africa extension, the Register button is absent at the top right side of the page where it is found without the extension. However, clicking on Log in takes you to the Login page where you can find the Create an account button.

Desired behaviour:

The Register button should be present on the page header beside the Log in button so that users can easily find it when they need it.

Why this issue is important:

Most users will expect to find a register button on the Homepage and might not think that they need to visit the Login page in order to find the Register button

Currently

When a user updates their profile, the alert that comes up is partially hidden by the menu bar.

Desired

Notification of profile update should be completely visible.

Why this feature is important

Users of the extension will trust the team more if styling of elements is done right.