link tool to dataset for insight

[albot]

Hi all,

I was wondering whether the link tool which is present in the web client could be made available in the insght client, too.

For the time being, you only see the id of the dataset or image in insght but you so not have the possibility to extract the URL to it like you do in the web client.

Best regards
Alex

[wmoore]

Hi Alex,

Do you mean that you want Insight to generate the same urls that the webclient does (to use in your browser) or that you want some other linking / bookmarking solution to take you to a particular image etc in Insight?

Insight could easily generate a url based on http://[server-name]/webclient/?show=image-123 but it has no idea if there will be a web server at that url (depends on how you've deployed your web).

For Insight to generate bookmarks internally, I'm not sure how this would work and whether you'd want to use them from outside the application (like a url in an e-mail) or simply within Insight itself (E.g. paste an ID etc within a search/location input field).

If you could give us a more complete idea of the workflow, that would be great,
Cheers,

Will.

[albot]

Hi Will

We are looking in a workflow where we would like to link experiments stored in our ELN system with e.g. datasets from OMERO.

Since people usually work with insight it would be ideal if you could extract the URL of a dataset or image or project (similar functionality as web client) and copy/paste it in our notebook system.

From the notebook by clicking on the URL from Omero the dataset woulb be shown in your favorite web browser after having authenticated against the Omero web client.

Hope that this description is clear enough.

Thanks and best regards
Alex

[jburel]

Hi Alex

Will and I discussed various possibilites, one simple solution could be to:
* add a entry in the insight configuration file indicating the address of the web server
i.e. under

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<structuredEntry name="/services/OMERODS" type="OMERODS">
      <!-- The configurable attribute indicates that the user can modify the
      value from the UI.
      -->
      <hostName configurable="true">localhost</hostName>
      <port>4063</port>
      <portSSL>4064</portSSL>
      <!-- Indicates the data transfer is encrypted (slower).
      The default value is false
      -->
      <encrypted configurable="true">false</encrypted>
    </structuredEntry>


* if no address specified, then we will go for

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http://[server-name]

where

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[server-name]

is the name of the server you are connected to.
* The URL will then be generated using such so the user can copy and paste

Such solution requires small adjustments. Do you think that will be acceptable as first step?

Regards

Jmarie

[albot]

Hi Jean-Marie,

Your proposals look fine with me - I did not think about the case that you could have more than 1 OMERO server but with your proposal we would solve this easily.

Thanks a lot.

Best regards
Alex

[jburel]

Hi Alex

I have created a ticket. https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/10173
If you wish to be CC'd, let me know

Regards

Jmarie

[albot]

Hi Jean-Marie,

Would be great to be cc'ed for further progress on this item.

Thanks.

Best
Alex