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The ability to filter a file before exporting is a crucial feature of the site and is not included by default in the base version of DKAN. Hopefully it exists as either an option or an extension; if not, we may need to write the functionality ourselves or look elsewhere for data portal options.

I've posted a question to the DKAN Developers group, but haven't gotten a response yet.

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Including the general DKAN update, there are 14 modules that require updates on the Update Modules page. When I try to do this, I initially get an "Updates downloaded correctly" notification.

However, after that, I reach the Update Manager page, where I am prompted for my FTP username and login, as well as a host/port combination.

Perhaps I'm inputting the wrong data into this form -- or perhaps it just doesn't work correctly -- but I'm always greeted with a 504 error upon submission. This occurs even if I update only a single module.

Change the domain name from dkan-test.local.com to something more appropriate for this specific project. Not sure what that will be until we get more details on the project.

Create a comprehensive list of functionalities required of the data portal and compare them to the base functionality of DKAN, as well as the functionality of major DKAN extensions. This is a necessary task before finalizing our decision to use DKAN.

Update instructions for building DKAN with Vagrant, a portable development environment manager with VirtualBox. This provides a simple setup process for anyone working on the Rhode Island municipal transparency project, as well as anyone interested in building DKAN without any of its multitudinous dependencies.

Instructions will be updated here.

Neglected to add a title when uploading a dataset and was met with a wide range of errors. Some, like "Title field is required," were useful, while others were unexpected, e.g.,

Notice: Undefined index: source in FeedsFileFieldFetcher->fetch() (line 20 of /home/vagrant/dkan/profiles/dkan/modules/contrib/feeds_field_fetcher/FeedsFileFieldFetcher.inc).

The suggestion to update DKAN to 7.x-1.x-dev comes from the Update Modules page, which states:

This update is a major version update which means that it may not be backwards compatible with your currently running version. It is recommended that you read the release notes and proceed at your own risk.

Trying to download the update from this page results in an error, so it may be necessary to change the downloaded DKAN version in the bootstrap.sh file.

Update the README to include site-specific information, including to information about Vagrant, Drupal 7, and DKAN. Remove default README from DKAN Drops.

The current site design is the default form of DKAN Drops. Changing some of the colors and layout to match ri.gov may prove useful, but keeping the modern design and functionality of DKAN is important.

We're currently using nginx as a web server, as it was configured in the /.provision/bootstrap.sh file. However, Acquia hosting uses the Apache web server, so we'll need to switch to that instead at some point.

Create a test data story to see if any issues arise/if we have any questions before the GovDelivery meeting next Friday.

I tried to add the 2014 Actuarial Source Data for ERSRI Retirees to the DKAN site as a CSV, but the upload failed at around 50%.

Re-clicking upload consistently results in the same error, as does trying to upload the data to another dataset. Not sure if the error here lies in the data, or in the ability to upload large-ish CSV files, but the CSV was correctly hosted on treasury.ri.gov's CKAN site.

It would be nice to have a shareable version of our current DKAN development site without necessarily hosting it online. This may be possible via ngrok, a service which provides secure tunnels to localhost.

Create a secondary user and give them permissions to update/modify the site via the admin panel. Then, use this user for uploading data stories and datasets, rather than the admin user.

After registering for a new account, the user receives a couple of "Unable to send email" errors. Not sure what's causing these or if they're related to the Vagrant host, but we'll need to fix this before the production site goes live.

Tried to create a data story, but I wasn't satisfied with the layout, so I opened panelizer and selected a new layout. When I did so, however, the following error appeared: "Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in panels_common_get_allowed_types() (line 378 of /home/vagrant/dkan/profiles/dkan/modules/contrib/panels/includes/common.inc)."

The UI for uploading and editing data is relatively complicated/non-intuitive and needs to be majorly redesigned. Put a focus on uploading data from files, and gather metadata later.