Does this also mean that whatever options I remove from a "Make Dropdown"
they will still popup in biomart because the template is rebuilt from the
data in the database on export?

I'm hoping not... Because as a workaround to using a temp table to build my
dropdown, I though about inserting some temp data in the main table, do a
"Make Dropdown", clean the options, do the export and then delete the dummy
data.

Robert

-----Message d'origine-----
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de Damian Smedley
Envoyé : 2 avril 2007 12:47
À : Robert Hamon
Cc : [email protected]
Objet : RE: [mart-dev] Marteditor dropdown list

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Robert Hamon wrote:

>  
> It silently fails.
> >From marteditor I point the filter to my temp table, use Make 
> >Dropdown and
> it correctly shows my list options in the filter. I then point the 
> filter back to the main table and export the config.
> I then reconfigure biomart with a --clean to rebuild the cache.
> In the browser it shows the list of option from the main table 
> ("|matrix1|matrix3|", "|matrix4|matrix5|", etc..) instead of the 
> options list I created from the temp table ("matrix1", "matrix2", 
> etc...)

ok - I see what is going on now. We introduced this new templating system
recently (mainly for our own ensembl needs) which changes the way MartEditor
handles things. What it boils down as a consequence of all this is that on
export each config gets updated to the real data so you lose your 'dummy'
data. Its a shame as that was a neat trick you were using :-)

I can't really think of an easy way round it at the moment (apart from the
obvious data redesign) but I will have a think. MartEditor will get
reengineered in the very near future so hopefully this functionality will
get returned

best wishes
Damian


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