Drawer widget for opening new view

[cmdcolin]

This is similar to the devtool for adding a new lgv, but could also involve selecting a different assembly

[rbuels]

• select the type of view you want to open
• select whether you want to tie it to an assembly or specify a list of displayedRegions
• displayedRegions could just be a text box with locstrings one per line maybe

[cmdcolin]

I want to make stuff like this:

select whether you want to tie it to an assembly or specify a list of displayedRegions displayedRegions could just be a text box with locstrings one per line maybe

As advanced options

The defaults should be clear

Also I want to add "search functionality".

I think there is some overlap between the proposed concept here and searching/navigating to a user entered locstring

[cmdcolin]

Let me phrase a weird question. Why do we want this feature to open up arbitrary linear genome views below another linear genome view. There are hypotheticals that I can think of, but in the end, I often say to myself that things like synteny need a specialized view, not just two stacked LGV. I guess this function could be useful in some scenarios but it just seems like one of those things that is sort of a little ambiguous for biological use cases

[cmdcolin]

Maybe I am misimagining the purpose. I understand that perhaps we have this whole idea of starting from scratch, or opening a different type of view e.g. circos instead of a linear view.

I'd still like a little bit of user story but maybe this can be delivered as is

[garrettjstevens]

I think the best user story I can think of for now is starting from scratch, like you mentioned. For example, the user will soon be able to create a new session from scratch in the UI. Let's say they want to focus on a particular gene, so they open a new session that doesn't have a view, and then add an LGV that has a region of just that gene.

[cmdcolin]

I think this has been superceded by ImportForm state as implemented by each view type