CKan Data set

Important

Enterprise Edition

If you purchased Knowage EE, this feature is available only in KnowageBD and KnowageSI

A Ckan dataset let you use open data as resource. You have to fill all the settings fields properly to let the dataset work successfully. Let’s have a look on them:

  • File Type: this field specifies the type of the file you want to import. Allowed ones are: CSV or XML;

  • Delimiter Character: Here you have to insert the delimiter used in the file. Allowed values are: , ; \t |

  • Quote Character: Allowed values for this field are: “ or ”;

  • Encoding: Here you have to specify the encoding typology used. Allowed values are: UTF-8, UTF-16, windows-1252 , ASCII or ISO-8859-1;

  • Skip rows: the number inserted stands for the rows not to be imported;

  • Limit rows: it is the maximum number of rows to be imported. If you leave it blank all rows are uploaded;

  • XLS numbers: it is the number of sheets to be imported;

  • CKAN ID : here you have to insert the ID of the resource you are interested in. Look for it among the additional information in Ckan dataset webpage.

  • CKAN url: it is the direct link to download the resources available on Ckan dataset webpage.

We marked with the * symbol the mandatory fields. We suggest to do a preview of your dataset before saving it to be sure everything have been correctly configured.