detailsDynamicTable Bug or Unclear Documentation

[Shane Buckley]

Hello UCSC Genome Browser team,

I have a track hub here that I am using in this public session that I have built referring to this documentation.

From the debugging that I have been able to complete from my side, it appears that the comma-separated definitions for the detailsDynamicTable stanza line are being ignored and will only show the first provided table.

For example, if my trackDb.txt file contains this line:
detailsDynamicTable jsonMolecular|Molecular Features,jsonClinical|Clinical Features,jsonPublication|Publication

Then I only get the Molecular Features table shown.

If I remove the Molecular Features table:

detailsDynamicTable jsonClinical|Clinical Features,jsonPublication|Publication

Then I get the Molecular Table field as a normal extension field with the json string as the value and only the Clinical Features table shown.

NOTE: in all three cases, the data are successfully shown when I navigate to the "Data schema/format description and download" page.

Is there something incorrect on my end from interpreting the documentation or is this a bug?

Best,

Shane Buckley

[Christopher Lee]

Hi Shane,

I'm taking a look now, from a first glance it looks like everything is right on your end though.

Christopher Lee

UCSC Genomics Institute

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[Christopher Lee]

Hi Shane,

This was indeed a bug on our end, we have fixed it on our test server. I made a session on our test server with your test hub attached:

https://genome-test.gi.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?hgS_doOtherUser=submit&hgS_otherUserName=chrislee&hgS_otherUserSessionName=hg38_adld_hub_for_shane

So you can verify everything is hunky dory. This change will be reviewed by our QA team and released to the public site some time around April 28. 

Thanks!

[Shane Buckley]

Thanks! 

One small issue I still see is that the tables appear in reverse order. From what I provided, I would expect it to be Molecular, Clinical, then Publication.

Best,

Shane

[Matthew Speir]

Hello, Shane.

Thank you for letting us know. However, changing something like this is low on our priorities and unlikely to be fixed anytime soon. I would recommend just changing the order of the tables in your file so that they come out in the desired order.

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