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cidgoh / DataHarmonizer

A standardized browser-based spreadsheet editor and validator that can be run offline and locally, and which includes templates for SARS-CoV-2 and Monkeypox sampling data. This project, created by the Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics and One Health (CIDGOH), at Simon Fraser University, is now an open-source collaboration with contributions from the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC), the LinkML development team, and others.
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Add column help sidebar to core library #392

Closed pkalita-lbl closed 1 year ago

pkalita-lbl commented 1 year ago

While using DataHarmonizer within the NMDC project we got feedback that it wasn't immediately apparent to users that double-clicking a column header would give them a help popup. To address that we implemented a collapsible sidebar with the same help information. It updates as the user selects different cells to show help for the selected column. In a brief conversation with some folks at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center who are using DataHarmonizer, they also expressed interest in the help sidebar.

I think it's fair to say a help sidebar is non-application-specific enough to consider adding to the core library.

ddooley commented 1 year ago

Yes, I ran this by Emma and it seemed like a fine piece of functionality. I think your current NMDC implementation has it "squeeze" existing DH display space, rather than float over it, which seems alright too, given that people can turn it off/on.

pkalita-lbl commented 1 year ago

That's right. It kind of needs to squeeze instead of overlay because otherwise you couldn't edit the last few columns while still looking at the help.