Hints

Hints are short text descriptions that are displayed in a yellow box at the top of pages in the web interface.

There are some hints included by default in InterMine but you can easily add your own. You can specify multiple hints per page. When a page is displayed to a user it will randomly select a hint and only show a user the same hint three times in any session.

Hints are configured in your web.properties file as hint.pagename.hintid = text.

• pagename is the name of the page you see in the url without the .do. The templates page is localhost:8080/my-webapp/templates.do which becomes templates. The home page is called begin.
• hintid can be any text but note that the default hints use plain numbers, if you use plain numbers you will override any default hint with the same page name and number.

The default hints are configured in global.web.properties. An example of hints added for modMine in the local web.properties file:

hint.begin.m1=Click on the Experiment Name (or the Get Data button) for a detailed summary of the experiment and its data submissions.
hint.begin.m2=You can get a list of submissions by clicking one of the 3 links at the bottom of the page (Fly, Worm, All submissions).
hint.experiment.m1=You can get a list of all the submissions using a certain experimental factor by clicking the link [ALL] beside the given factor name in the table.
hint.experiment.m2=All the available data files can be reached with the external links in the last column of the summary table.