Hi Assaf,
Both bugs; I'll fix them soon.
Thanks for the keen eyes, J.
On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:12 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
Hi,
I've noticed a small usability annoyance with shared histories.
Scenario: A user shared a history with me. The new history appears in the "Histories shared with you by others" page. I click on the history name, get a popup menu with three options: View, Clone, Unshare.
If I choose "clone", the history is cloned and appears in my "saved history". If I choose "view" (and look at the library) then click on the green import button, I get a red error message: "The owner of this history has disabled imports via this link. You can return to the previous page."
I understand that "cloning" is technically different from "import via link", but conceptually, the end result is the same - I should get the shared history into my histories.
So it's quite confusing when I get this error message. Since I'm slightly familiar with Galaxy, I realized that the correct thing to do is go back to the list of shared-histories, then "clone" instead of import. An inexperienced user might think that something is wrong with the sharing.
Somewhat related: After importing a history via link, the "start using this history" link does not work if the current history a non-empty.
To reproduce:
- go to http://main.g2.bx.psu.edu/
- click "options" -> "create new".
- current history is empty.
- go to http://main.g2.bx.psu.edu/history/list_published
- select any one of the histories (e.g. "SM_1186088")
- Click on the green plus button to import the history.
- The following message is displayed:
History "imported: SM_1186088" has been imported. You can start using this history or return to the previous page.
- click on "start using this history", you'll be back on the main galaxy web site, with this new history selected.
So far, so good.
Now, repeat steps 1-8, but instead of creating a new, empty history (step 2,3), select a non-empty history or upload some dummy data set.
After clicking "start using this history" (step 8) you'll be at the *old* history, not the newly imported one.
-gordon
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