dataTable

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Needs to re-code to work without conversion to ExampleTable. 

Be able to select and send forward??

Or
with row select be able to link out to web as in sigpathway?
This would require the dataframe and a key column and URL construct which 
takes a key column to create the working URL.

This maybe a very useful general tool to bring connectivity to web-based 
databases 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by anup.parikh on 16 Sep 2009 at 2:14

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The problem with that is that we would have to send something from connected 
widgets 
as to what the user should be looking for on the web.  Like a template URL that 
can 
be sent with meta-data.  Could there be functionality to go to the web for more 
than 
one thing per row (gene name if one column clicked, gene sequence if another).  
We 
could get the url from an attached dict (optional of course) that would specify 
an 
action for each column when clicked and input data from the row.

Not sure how this would work with controlling outputs as in sigPath.  I'm 
almost 
tempted to make that a thing that each widget author codes for the widget and 
just 
make it an internal attribute.  I think dataTable should simply show data and 
some 
graphical info about distributions and other things.  If we try to make it too 
complicated we'll just run into more problems.

Original comment by kylecovi...@gmail.com on 16 Sep 2009 at 2:00

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I am imagining on the left panel the ability to add a template url and a column 
number.

So for any dataTable the user can link it to online re-sources if they know how.

If had loading some dicty data with gene ids in the first column. I add a url 
in a lineedit
http://dictybase.org/gene/{ID}
and select column one as the source for {ID}

Now a simple dataTable with a rowselect model is able to link out to 
dictybase.org

DataTable can also populate this linking information from the received signal. 

input:
{
 data:RDataFrame,
 geneInfo:
 {
  templateURL: http://dictybase.org/gene/{ID}
  columnID: columnName
 }
 sequenceInfo:
 {
  templateURL: ....
  columnID: ...
 }
}

Receiving this signal will automatically populate the left panel GUI. The user 
can activate/deactivate 
the linking with a checkbox. 

Connecting widgets such as sigPathway would have to send the proper dict. The 
top panel of sigPathway 
would become similar to the panel in RgeneEnrichment. Users can select one or 
more pathways and the 
genes from those pathways are sent forward with the proper url info.

Original comment by anup.parikh on 16 Sep 2009 at 2:52

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dataTable uses a special OW class for accessing and specifying the table 
structure.  
I have modified dataEntry to be similar to dataTable and it now shows data that 
is 
connected to it.  Best bet is just to modify dataTable to link to the web and 
not to 
send anything forward.

We could add functionality to write the data to a file also 

I'll do both of these things and update later today or tomorrow.

Original comment by kylecovi...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2009 at 2:13

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now accepts a dict element 'link' that should be a list of three elements, the 
first 
is infromation that should be prepended to the table data, the second is 
infromation 
that should be appended to the table data and the third is the column number of 
the 
data that should be sent with the http call.  All of these things go into a 
shell 
exec to open a file or webpage with the prepend+table data+append infromation.

Will also allow one to write the table to a file of the users choosing.

Original comment by kylecovi...@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2009 at 8:09

• Changed state: Fixed