fully show wide GO terms in autocomplete and sentence

[stcruy]

[adapted from an enhancement suggested by a Reviewer of the causalBuilder manuscript]

“(...) is not big enough to distinguish between some of the very long GO term names that differ only at the end, e.g. “regulation of transcription from RNA polymerase II promoter involved in determination of left/right symmetry” and similar.”

[stcruy]

[Answer]:

• Note that full term names are in fact always accessible to the user, although for abbreviated term names this does require the extra step of mousing over it, and seeing the full name pop up. This works both in the autocomplete selection panel and in the VSM-sentence.
  (Note that some maximum width setting is necessary to preserve usability for extremely long terms).

• That being said, we believe that

  • adding a line like vsmbox.maxStringLengths = { str: 150, strAndDescr: 180 }; at VsmCausalTemplate.js#L42 would allow for wider autocomplete suggestions, and
  • adding the property , maxWidth: 600 to the Activity object at VsmCausalTemplate.js#L261 would allow for wider Biological Activity terms.
    (But this would need to be tested before deployment).