Re: [Gmod-ajax] Control Ordering of Categories in Left-hand Panel?

[Colin <col...@gm...>]

Hi Vaneet,
I added this github issue to track it
https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse/issues/1203


-Colin

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 1:10 PM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
wrote:

> Hey guys,
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> Just want to reiterate that having a custom sort function both for sorting
> categories and the tracks in the categories would be very useful and
> beneficial for me too.  I hope it’s on the list of features to add for
> future JBrowse releases.
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> Thanks,
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> Vaneet
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> *Vaneet Lotay*
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> *From:* Colin [mailto:col...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 14, 2018 1:46 PM
> *To:* Ben Bimber <bb...@gm...>
> *Cc:* gmo...@li...
> *Subject:* Re: [Gmod-ajax] Control Ordering of Categories in Left-hand
> Panel?
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> There is no way to provide a custom sort function currently but you can
> specify "trackSelector.sortHierarchical=false" and then the sorting will be
> basically in whichever order the tracks are loaded as. If that does not
> satisfy the issue, as in maybe you do need a custom sorter besides "no
> sorting", feel free to make a github issue
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> In jbrowse.conf that might look like
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> [trackSelector]
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> sortHierarchical=false
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> Or in trackList.json
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> "trackSelector": {
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>     "sortHierarchical": false
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> }
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> -Colin
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> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 3:36 PM Ben Bimber <bb...@gm...> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> In a jbrowse session, you provide a list of tracks, and these tracks can
> have a category.  The left-hand panel shows available tracks, with tracks
> grouped by category.  It seems to sort categories alphabetically.  is it
> possible to manually provide a sort order for categories in one of the JSON
> contig files?  I didnt see anything like this in the examples:
> http://gmod.org/wiki/JBrowse_Configuration_Guide.
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> Thanks for any help,
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> Ben
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