Is it possible to use URL hyperlinks in Key-Value pairs?

[Kouichi_C_Nakamura]

Is it possible to use URL hyperlinks in Key-Value pairs (MapAnnotation)?

I could not, but the readme file of OMERO.mapr shows apparent hyperlinks (text in blue), so I wonder if it's possible or not. https://github.com/ome/omero-mapr

[manics]

Mapr overrides one of the webclient templates to make hyperlinks into links: https://github.com/ome/omero-mapr/blob/ ... al.js.html
It's not part of the standard OMERO.web. If you've got a test system you could try installing mapr even if you don't need most of the functionality?

Simon

[Kouichi_C_Nakamura]

Thanks. We discussed the installation of OMERO.mapr before for other purposes, but this adds another advantage of using it.

I've noticed that, with standard OMERO.web, HTML tag like `<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/14415">14415</a>` does not work. However, if I use an URL like "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/14415" as a value, it does look blue and allows us to jump to the destination page.

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[mtbc]

Dear Kouichi,

Thank you, an interesting observation. We'll have a think about this one: I can see that it would be useful to recognize simple cases more usefully but we may shy from having users expect arbitrary HTML to be supported!

Cheers,
Mark

[Kouichi_C_Nakamura]

I agree. What to be supported and what to be not.

Thinking of the appearance of MapAnootation on OMERO.web, just supporting the HTML <a> tag makes sense to me. You probably don't want <b> or <i> or anything more complicated than that.

Does that (supporting <a> alone) accidentally convert a literal text to a hyperlink? Quite unlikely, but not guaranteed.

[manics]

If it's just hyperlinks we could auto-link anything matching

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protocol://<non-space-characters>

and not bother with parsing html or any other markup?

[Kouichi_C_Nakamura]

Thanks.

protocol://<non-space-characters>

Looking at the screenshot I uploaded above (the Gene ID value), this I think is perhaps already working?

Maybe, it's good as it is, then? Just ask people to give up using <a> and instead ask to use full URLs?

Best,
Kouichi

[manics]

You're right! It looks like if you add a URL to a map-annotation in OMERO.web it only becomes hyperlinked after a refresh, this is why I thought it wasn't implemented, so I think using the full URL is the best option. We'll certainly consider adding limited formatting (e.g. limited HTML tags, or markdown) in future though.