Extension Discourse

These CKAN Versions are exactely matched:

• 2.10.0
• 2.10.1
• 2.10.2
• 2.10.3
• 2.10.4
• 2.10.5
• 2.10.6
• 2.10.7
• 2.10.8
• 2.10.9
• 2.11.0
• 2.11.1
• 2.11.2
• 2.11.3
• 2.11.4
• 2.12.0
• 2.9.0
• 2.9.0a
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.10
• 2.9.11
• 2.9.13
• 2.9.2
• 2.9.3
• 2.9.4
• 2.9.5
• 2.9.6
• 2.9.7
• 2.9.8
• 2.9.9

How it works

A new topic is created in the Discourse forum (in a designated Category) for each dataset, organization, and group in the CKAN site. This will happen automatically the first time someone visits the CKAN dataset, org and group page and starts a discussion. Topic reply counts are also displayed in the appropriate listing pages.

This plugin also supports ckanext-datarequests and ckanext-showcase.

Setup Discourse

1. Install Discourse (v1.6+)

   The recommended way is to use the official Docker image following these instructions.

   Also make sure to set up Discourse email integration properly before proceeding as its required for account creation and notification.

2. Create a new Discourse user. This will be the user that will create the topics on Discourse for each CKAN entity that has commenting support (currently, commenting is supported on Dataset packages, Organizations, Groups, Showcase Items, Dataset requests).

To create a new user, go to “Admin” > “Users” > “Send Invites” and enter an email address. You may want to name the user so that its plainly evident its a bot (e.g. databot). After creating the bot user, be sure to verify its email so it can post.

3. Create a new Discourse Category. This will contain all topics created for each CKAN dataset. To do so, go to the homepage and click on “Categories” > “New Category”. Enter a name and optionally the slug for your category (e.g. Open Data Talk). After creating a Category, go to the Category page and take note of the URL. You will need this to setup ckanext-discourse.

4. Configure Embbedding. Go to “Admin” > “Customize” > “Embedding”. You must fill up the following fields:

   • Allowed Hosts: Add the domain (without the http:// bit) of your CKAN instance (e.g. data.myorg.com)
   • Post to Category: Name of