Hello Jessica,
We provide solutions to both of your problems, however, neither of them
work
exactly as you wish.
The 'url' method, plus the addition of the '$$' allow you to add
anchors to
your explanatory html file. However, the file is two clicks away; there's no
way to make it any closer than that. As for the "Outside Link" words, you
could
change those if you downloaded all of the source code, created your own mirror
site, and then edited that particular part of the code. That seems to me like
quite a bit of work for such a small change! But, you should know that a
mirror
site is an option if you are serious about personalizing the website.
I assume that you have already come across these instructions that
discuss the
'url' plus '$$' method: http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/customTrack.html
Section 5, Example 4.
As for using the 'htmlUrl' method, as you have noted, there is only one
file
allowed per track. There is no anchoring system available for this method.
I hope that one of these proves to be a workable solution for you.
Please
don't hesitate to contact the mail list again if you require further assistance.
Regards,
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Ann Zweig
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
http://genome.ucsc.edu
Jessica Wasserscheid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to link some pdf files to some of my custom tracks
> using either the "url" or "htmlUrl" tags, but here is my problem :
>
> - using the 1st one, I really like the option of using '$$' that gets
> replaced by my item name, since I have one file per element.
> But I'd like to be able to jump directly to my file by clicking on the
> item in the genome browser window (which doesn't seem possible), or then
> at least to modify the phrase "Outside Link" to something more intuitive
> related to the content of the file for the user to click... I guess I
> want the extra information to be more easily available, or more obvious.
>
> - using the second option I'm getting really close to what I want, I
> like the fact that the details, or images or whatever is in my file,
> appear right away (only one click)
>
>
>
> However (please tell me I'm wrong), I can't have multiple files, all of
> the elements are going to display the code of the one url specified in
> the htmlUrl tag in the 'track' line.
> So I have been trying different things using anchors, but it doesn't
> seem to work. My html file loads and displays properly underneath the
> clone details, but always at the top of the html code.
> Is there a way to effectively use an 'anchoring system' using htmlUrl ?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jessica
>
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