[GeoNode-users] How do I enable the "Create Layer" application?

[Paolo Corti]

Yes, unfortunately documentation is messed up and would require love.
We don't have an endpoint for 2.6 documentation, and things now are
messed up with master.
sorry about that
p

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Joe Hotchkiss
<joe.hotchkiss at envsys.co.uk> wrote:
> Thank you for the quick (and informative) reply.
> What got me worried about about not seeing this facility wasn't so much
> not-being-able-to-create-empty-layers, as the implication that PostGIS
> wasn't enabled for GeoNode and that GeoNode might not be using the postgres
> databases that have been created for it.  This might be me worrying over
> nothing and all is as well as it can be for this version of GeoNode, but I
> wanted to know if there is something else I need to set up.
>
> On 25 October 2017 at 15:40, Paolo Corti <pcorti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>> createlayer is available only in latest source code, not in 2.6.x
>> Sorry about it
>> regards
>> p
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Joe Hotchkiss
>> <joe.hotchkiss at envsys.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > http://docs.geonode.org/en/master/tutorials/users/managing_layers/create.html
>> > states:
>> >
>> > In GeoNode it is possible to create empty layers, that can be populated
>> > with
>> > features at a later stage using the mapping client editing tools.
>> >
>> > This is possible using the createlayer application, which can be enabled
>> > if
>> > GeoNode is installed with PostGIS.
>> >
>> > Once the application is enabled in GeoNode you will be able to create an
>> > empty layer by browsing to “Data > Create Layer”.
>> >
>> > I have GeoNode 2.6.3 installed and running.  The geonode and
>> > geonode_data
>> > databases exist, and geonode_data has the postgis extension.
>> >
>> > What do I need to do to 'enable the application in GeoNode'?
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> Joe Hotchkiss
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