Intern:Archive/Direct download interface


 * DDI is no longer supported and works in backwards compatibility mode since 2018-04-14. We installed replacement delegations for the most famous DDI requests (expeditions, parameter lists for Rainer's tools, BSRN, some staffs/event lists). Everything else will work for a limited time, but with static data served from the old Sybase ASE database. We will keep an eye on it and may install more delegations - as needed, but a few weeks later we will switch off the old DDI backend, so only newly installed delegation configs will work.

Old documentation
With the Direct Download Interface (DDI) custom retrievals can be created to download specific metadata tables just by a link on any web page. The content of the list will always reflect the most recent content of the system whenever the link is used.

In order to use the DDI, open the Advanced Retrieval Tool, ART, and
 * Choose the table of interest.
 * Define a retrieval on the 'Retrieval card'.
 * Define or adjust the configuration on the 'Config card'.
 * To assure that the retrieval returns the desired results, test it by pressing the 'Fetch' button.
 * Save the retrieval and the configuration with the 'Save' button on the 'Retrieval' card, resp. the 'Config' card. Give appropriate, identical file names, keep the extensions '.retr' and '.conf'.
 * Copy both files into a designated folder on your webserver.
 * Create an URL using the following syntax: http://www.pangaea.de/ddi?request= /&format=&login=
 * request: specifies the filename without extension.
 * format (opt): specifies the format (text or html);
 * textfile: requests for a filename for Save as or you can add a filename between the ‘ddi’ and the ‘?’: e.g. .../ddi/Filename.tab?request=... (use *.tab as extension).
 * login (opt): displays a login prompt before downloading data to enable password protection to unpublished data.

For PANGAEA-provided DDIs you can also place the file on PANGAEA's webserver inside folder webapps/ddi/WEB-INF/configs. All files placed there can be referenced using a relative path from there (instead of a full URL), e.g., http://www.pangaea.de/ddi/ParameterJGOFS.tab?retr=parameter/ParameterJGOFS.retr&conf=parameter/ParameterSTD.conf&format=html&title=JGOFS+core+Parameter

Detailed documentation of ddi: http://www.pangaea.de/shared/help/help.php/directdownload/