[ome-users] HTML Templates

[Arpun Nagaraja]

Hello,
    This summer I have been working on a user-friendly interface for  
annotating, browsing, and displaying images.  I now have a working copy  
of this project, complete with user documentation.  To see the  
documentation, go here:

http://users.openmicroscopy.org.uk/~anagaraja/OME-WEBSITE/custom- 
annotations

Click on Custom Annotations, and you will see a tutorial on how to use  
the interface.

I have committed my code to CVS.  You can access it with a CVS update  
and by uncommenting the following lines in the DefaultMenuBuilder.pm  
file
(under ~/OME/cvs/OME/src/perl2/OME/Web/ or wherever you have your web  
directory).

{
		web_class => undef,
		type => 'heading',
		text => 'Annotation',
	},
	{
		web_class => 'OME::Web::CG_ConstructTemplate',
		type => 'link',
		text => 'Create a Template',
	},
	{
		web_class => 'OME::Web::CG_Annotator',
		type => 'link',
		text => 'Annotate Images',
	},
	{
		web_class => 'OME::Web::CG_Search',
		type => 'link',
		text => 'Search by Annotation',
	},

Before you create any templates, you have to create some directories  
with group write permissions for the ome group (so that apache can  
write to them).  The default template directory after a fresh checkout  
and installation was /OME/html/Templates, so this is probably the  
directory that you will be using.  From this directory, do the  
following:

[IICBU-2xG4:/OME/html/Templates] arpun% mkdir Browse
[IICBU-2xG4:/OME/html/Templates] arpun% mkdir Browse/CategoryGroup
[IICBU-2xG4:/OME/html/Templates] arpun% mkdir Actions/Annotator
[IICBU-2xG4:/OME/html/Templates] arpun% mkdir  
Actions/Annotator/CategoryGroup
[IICBU-2xG4:/OME/html/Templates] arpun% sudo chmod -R g+w .

Now you have all the necessary directories and permissions to create  
templates.

One caveat: The template engines work on Mac OS X, but I have not yet  
tested it on Linux.  There was a problem installing it on the Linux box  
that we have, but I think the problem only applies to this particular  
machine.

Feedback is very much appreciated.  Enjoy!

-Arpun