DataViewAnalytics CKAN Extension

This extension displays analytics on resources by analysing the country and occupation of visitors to every resource/data. This extension is presently on development and is not officially released for use yet. You should only install if you are a developer and want to contribute to the project.

To install and set up CKAN, visit CKAN Documentation

Then follow the steps below to install the DataViewAnalytics extension:

Step 1:

• Activate your virtual environment; use the path to your virtual environment. On Mac OSX, you may have to use /usr/local/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate. You can copy the code as is below, including the preceeding dot.

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

Step 2:

• Install the extension

You can download the source code and install the extension manually. To do so, execute the following command:

pip install -e git+https://github.com/shemogumbe/ckanext-dataviewanalytics.git#egg=ckanext-dataviewanalytics

Alternatively: You can clone this repo (preferably into the /src directory where you installed CKAN), cd into ckanext-dataviewanalytics and run

python setup.py develop

Install necessary requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 3:

• Modify your configuration file (generally in /etc/ckan/default/production.ini) and add dataviewanalytics to the ckan.plugins property.

ckan.plugins = dataviewanalytics <OTHER_PLUGINS>

Step 4:

• Restart your server:

paster serve /etc/ckan/default/production.ini

OR

paster serve --reload /etc/ckan/default/production.ini

With --reload, your server is restarted automatically whenever you make changes to your source code.

Support

If you've found a bug/issue in the extension, please open a new issue here (try searching first to see if there's already an issue for your bug).

Contributing to DataViewAnalytics CKAN Extension

If you have interest in contributing to the development of DataViewAnalytics extension, you are welcome. A good starting point will be reading the CKAN general Contributing guide. Then you can check out existing issues that are open for contribution; new features and issues are welcome. To work on any issue, comment on the issue to indicate your interest and the issue will be assigned to you. It is always a good idea to seek for clarification (where necessary) on any issue before you work on it.

It is important that changes that require some form of configuration be documented in the README.

Copying and License

This project is copyright (c) 2017 Andela.

It is open and licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) v2.0

Find the full text here, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.