ckan change group to organization

Question

I am working on upgrading a currently working ckan site to a 2.x version. I have the system stood up on a server, following the documentation of upgrading ckan and following the source install documentation. Now, our previous install included a sizable number (~30) of groups. These used to provide what organizations do (somewhat) in the newer version of the software. This provides a good distinction between groups and organizations on ckan. So, is there a way to port these groups into organizations, and have the organizations own the datasets? I need a way to automate this, as there are many datasets (up to 600) for each group, and data providers need a way to keep these datasets updated. Thanks for any help you can give me/1

Answer 1

I guess you need to write a little script to do this.

You could do this in python using the client https://github.com/ckan/ckanapi and call group_list() then on each one do a group_show() followed by organization_create(). The dict for an organization wouldn't be much different to a group - try it and see.