Power Pack

Commonly used platform enhancements

Owner: Andrew Skalkin Issues: Tracker

Power widgets

A start page that contains widgets (annotated with the dashboard tag) that are dynamically discovered from the packages available to the current user.

Power search

Ability to search for anything from the start screen, with the special support for the following:

• Widgets
• Functions
• Applications
• User-defined external apps (via iframe)
• Entities (connections, queries, etc)

Search templates

The goal is to provide an efficient and extensible way to react to user input in the global search box. A search template consists of the following:

• regular expressions (parameters would become properties)
• widget identifier
• property mapping

A collection of search templates is curated by the community (either global or within your organization). You can mix and match template collections by editing the searchTemplatePaths package property.

The following example illustrates the template that binds a ChEMBL molecule identifier (such as CHEMBL123456) with a web page containing the molecule summary. Here is the corresponding entry in the chembl.json file:

     {
      "id": "chembl-id-representations",
      "name": "Representations",
      "widget": "webWidget",
      "templates": [{
        "template": "(CHEMBL[0-9]+)",
        "url": "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/embed/#compound_report_card/${1}/representations"
      }]
    }

Now, when you enter CHEMBL123456 in the search box, the following page appears: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/embed/#compound_report_card/CHEMBL123456/representations

Power Expressions

Add New Column dialog that lets you add derived columns by applying a formula to existing columns. To activate, click on the Add New Column icon on the toolbar or go to top menu Edit -> Add New Column. Key features are:

• Support for functions implemented with Python, R, Julia, JavaScript, C++, and others. To add function to an editor, type it manually, drag and drop from functions registry on the right or use plus icon. You can combine functions written in different languages in one formula.
• Auto-suggested functions based on the column type and semantic type. To use:
  • set functions sorting type in function registry to 'By relevance'
  • select column of interest
  • the functions in functions registry are sorted automatically. More relevant functions are on top of the list.
  • drag and drop function to the editor field or click plus icon. Corresponding parameter is prefilled automatically with selected column.
• Interactive preview of results as you type
• Autocompletion for functions (including packages names) and columns. Suggestions appear as you type.
• Different highlights within formula for better readability. For instance, column names are highlighted with in bold blue font.
• Validation against various types of mistakes including syntax errors, missing columns detection, incorrect data types, unmatching brackets.
• Resulting column type autodetection
• Fast function and column search
• History, saving and reusing formulas

Windows Manager

Use icons on the right of the status bar to control visibility of tool windows.