Re: [Gmod-ajax] How to add more fields to faceted selector

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

Hi Vaneet,
I just released v4.3.0 which contains a fix for this. Thanks for reporting
these issues :)


-Colin

On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 12:38 PM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
wrote:

> Hey Colin,
>
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> Thank you so much for fixing that!  Sorry I meant to get back to you
> sooner about this, but I did notice one further issue with the faceted
> track selector.  Now when you open the faceted track selector it does in
> fact escape the HTML so that you see actual links and don’t see the hidden
> HTML tags which is good.  However, as soon as you start typing search terms
> and it reveals which items are matching your search query on the fly, all
> the results below that match with their unescaped HTML tags.  Is that
> something that can be fixed or it has to be this way for the faceted
> selector to work with escaped HTML?
>
>
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> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Vaneet
>
>
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> *From:* Colin <col...@gm...>
> *Sent:* March 3, 2026 8:45 AM
> *To:* Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
> *Cc:* gmod-ajax <gmo...@li...>
> *Subject:* Re: [Gmod-ajax] How to add more fields to faceted selector
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> [△EXTERNAL]
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> It is now fixed on the main branch (jbrowse create --nightly) if you want
> to try it
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> Fix here https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse-components/pull/5492
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> -Colin
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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 4:33 PM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
> wrote:
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> Hey Colin,
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> Thank so much for adding that update so quickly into a new release.  The
> searching of additional metadata fields does work very well but there’s a
> new issue I noticed.  It appears now that if I have any HTML in those
> metadata fields which for my purposes was used for sorting as well as
> adding links to the ‘About this track’ window, the HTML is not escaped now
> in the faceted track selector window and just shows as the raw HTML with
> all the opening and ending tags.
>
>
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> I can’t quite remember now but I’m pretty sure this wasn’t happening
> before in a previous release.  I remember looking at the metadata in the
> faceted track selector in previous releases and it was escaped so that the
> text appeared as a link when I had put in the necessary HTML to do that.
> The about this track window still appears correctly as before with escaping
> the necessary HTML so it’s not seen.
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> Is this something you can fix?
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> Thanks,
>
>
> Vaneet
>
>
>
> *From:* Colin <col...@gm...>
> *Sent:* February 21, 2026 12:04 PM
> *To:* Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
> *Cc:* gmod-ajax <gmo...@li...>
> *Subject:* Re: [Gmod-ajax] How to add more fields to faceted selector
>
>
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> [△EXTERNAL]
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> Searching metadata in the faceted selector was fixed and released in
> v4.1.13. Let me know if you run into any other issues
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> On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 10:43 AM Colin <col...@gm...> wrote:
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> I don't think so. I'll made a tracking issue for this here
> https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse-components/issues/5472
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> On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 3:34 PM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
> wrote:
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> Hey Colin,
>
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> Just a follow up to this old topic…thank you for the info by the way!  Is
> there any way to search other fields in the faceted track selector besides
> the track name?
>
>
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> I realize that when there are metadata attributes that are shared across
> more then 5 tracks those attributes do appear as facets and you can click
> on the facet filters to filter out the results by their values.  However,
> what I’m wondering is there any way to search those additional facets on
> their values from the main search bar of the faceted track selector, or
> does it only simply search the tracknames?
>
>
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> Thanks,
>
>
> Vaneet
>
>
>
> *From:* Colin <col...@gm...>
> *Sent:* October 12, 2025 7:29 AM
> *To:* Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
> *Cc:* gmod-ajax <gmo...@li...>
> *Subject:* Re: [Gmod-ajax] How to add more fields to faceted selector
>
>
>
> [△EXTERNAL]
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> The basic idea for the faceted track selector is that any "top level"
> entry in the track metadata becomes searchable in the track metadata.
> Example
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> {
>       "type": "VariantTrack",
>       "trackId": "volvox_test_vcf",
>       "metadata": {
>         "thing here": "hello"
>       },
>       "name": "volvox 1000genomes vcf",
>       "assemblyNames": ["volvox"],
>       "category": ["Variants"],
>       "adapter": {
>         "type": "VcfTabixAdapter",
>         "uri": "volvox.test.vcf.gz"
>       }
>     },
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> That will make "thing here" a column and a facet filter, but also note
> that it filters out "sparse" metadata columns by default, so it only shows
> metadata that is shared across >5 tracks as a facet (arbitrary threshold)
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> You can toggle "Show sparse metadata columns" to show facets for even
> metadata not shared by 5 tracks
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> There is no notion of only a subset of tracks appearing in the faceted
> selector currently
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> -Colin
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> On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
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> There is documentation for adding the field ‘category’ as an active field
> to the faceted track selector.  How do you add more fields to that so they
> can be used to filter tracks for in that pop up window?  I tried added some
> random fields under the ‘metadata{}’ name in the config.json file.  While
> they appear in the ‘About this track’ dialog they don’t appear in the
> faceted track selector.
>
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> Also, is there a way I can limit which tracks I want to appear in the
> faceted track selector?  I want a subset of tracks that can appear in their
> own faceted track selector with many metadata fields to filter upon similar
> to the original JBrowse.  How do I do this in JBrowse 2?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Vaneet
>
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