{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/179#issuecomment-392606418", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/179", "id": 392606418, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM5MjYwNjQxOA==", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2018-05-28T21:32:37Z", "updated_at": "2018-05-28T21:32:37Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "> It could also be useful to allow users to import a python file containing custom functions that can that be loaded into scope and made available to custom templates.\r\n\r\nThat's now covered by the plugins mechanism - you can create plugins that define custom template functions: http://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins.html#prepare-jinja2-environment-env", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 288438570, "label": "More metadata options for template authors "}, "performed_via_github_app": null}
{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/179#issuecomment-360535979", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/179", "id": 360535979, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDM2MDUzNTk3OQ==", "user": {"value": 82988, "label": "psychemedia"}, "created_at": "2018-01-25T17:18:24Z", "updated_at": "2018-01-25T17:18:24Z", "author_association": "CONTRIBUTOR", "body": "To summarise that thread:\r\n\r\n-  expose full `metadata.json` object to the index page template, eg to allow tables to be referred to by name;\r\n- ability to import multiple `metadata.json` files, eg to allow metadata files created for a specific SQLite db to be reused in a datasette referring to several database files;\r\n\r\nIt could also be useful to allow users to import a python file containing custom functions that can that be loaded into scope and made available to custom templates.\r\n", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 288438570, "label": "More metadata options for template authors "}, "performed_via_github_app": null}