Configuring the web.properties file

The web.properties has these properties:

• begin.intro
  • the introductory text on the webapp front page
• begin.query.classes
  • classes that will appear in the QueryBuilder section of the home page.
• begin.browse.template
  • the template used by the QuickSearch
• portal.welcome.flybase
  • the message to show when a user arrives at the webapp via the portal action (eg . <something>/portal.do)
• sitemap.urls
  • URLs that are placed in the sitemap generated for search engines.
• feedback.title
  • Text for the link to the feedback form located at the bottom of every page.
• funding
  • Text located in the footer of every page.
• bag.example.identifiers
  • Text present in the list upload form.
• header.links
  • These will populate the top right navigation and will link to <link>.shtml
• submenu.extraLink
  • An external link that will appear in the submenu navigation on each page.
• attributeLink
  • to configure hyperlinks, generally to external dbs.

Settings for the attributeLink property

The format for this property is

'attributelink' + unique_name + taxonId + attributeName + (url|imageName|text)

or

'attributelink' + unique_name + taxonId + attributeName + 'list' + (url|imageName|text)

if the link is with list of objects (ids).

• the unique_name is used to distinguish between multiple configurations for the same attribute/organism/class combination
• the taxonId is either a proper id or '*' when no assumptions is made regarding the organism.
• the 'list' element is either present (for link with list of identifiers) or not
• the value of the attribute (for the current object) is substituted anywhere the string "<<attributeValue>>" occurs in the text or the url

example:

 attributelink.flybase.Gene.7227.organismDbId.url=http://www.flybase.org/.bin/fbidq.html?<<attributeValue>>
 attributelink.flybase.Gene.7227.organismDbId.text=FlyBase: <<attributeValue>>

In this case Gene pages for Drosophila melanogaster will have a link that uses the organismDbId field.

A list example:

 attributelink.flymine.Gene.*.identifier.list.url=http://www.flymine.org/query/portal.do?externalid=<<attributeValue>>&class=Gene
 attributelink.flymine.Gene.*.primaryIdentifier.list.text=FlyMine
 attributelink.flymine.Gene.*.primaryIdentifier.list.imageName=flymine_logo_link.gif

Note that for lists the attribute value (the list of ids) is not displayed. Only if a taxId is specified the code will check if the link to the external db is relevant.

An example web.properties file configured for list (modmine).