Example User Requests

See also

An example updating strategy.

If you’ve arrived at this page directly it may be worth briefly taking in some of the general configuration notes.

Similarly, if you’re receiving requests which are likely to require updating AP-Portal to the latest public version additional, general notes are available in the Updating – Remote AP-Portal/ApPredict changes section of this documentation.

Please change the values of ion channel variability.

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See [3] regarding the change deployment technique, and [4] for additional information.

Please change the default CellML model.

This is set by having only one of the available models assigned a defaultModel value of true in the following :

Note

See [3] regarding the change deployment technique.

Please change the values of credible interval percentiles.

The variability percentile values are defined in the following :

Note

See [3] regarding the change deployment technique, and [4] for additional information.

Please modify information displayed by the information icons.

Currently the information displayed by Information icon. is not configurable. [2]

Information icons appear in various places throughout the client and client-direct UIs. Modification of the information they display is generally not possible as they are designed to enable the provision of an internationalised AP-Portal. It is of course possible to directly change the AP-Portal code base, rebuild and redeploy, but if tempted to do so please be careful regarding version control conflicts).
Having said that, parts of the values they display may be flexible, e.g. the sample below is taken from a middle.jsp file in client-direct.

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<td colspan="4" class="input_division cs_rounded_5">
  <spring:message code="general.notes" />
  <img src="${info_location}" class="info"
       title="<spring:message code="input.notes_max_chars"
                              arguments="${notes_length}" />" />
</td>

In the above we can see the use of the <spring:message code="general.notes" /> which, when the UI is to display the corresponding web page, will read in and display the general.notes property value derived from the src/main/resources/bundle/general[<_locale>].properties files [1].
What is also visible is the use of the <spring:message code=".." arguments="<args>" /> option which allows dynamic replacement of values which may be derived from, for example, values defined in configuration settings and so could be a technique for future (non-i18n!) information display.

Please add the new CellML models the ApPredict developer has released.

Please see ApPredict updating.

Please modify the warning/error messages.

As is the case with Please modify information displayed by the information icons. the warning messages are general not modifiable except by request to the AP-Portal developers. Whilst some error messages are internationalised some are also derived from hard-coded messages in back-end components.

Please update AP-Portal to incorporate the new development in the public version.

There are unfortunately no one-size-fits-all step-by-step guides to doing this unless it’s known what the modifications to the AP-Portal have been between the currently installed version and the latest available public version.

Some general updating notes are available which may provide guidance.

Footnotes

[1]The “locale” is considered to be the browser’s current preferred display language.
[2]Any suggestions for change or queries would be welcomed by the portal developers!
[3](1, 2, 3) Modification of the configuration files should ideally be done prior to rebuilding and redeploying the relevant component (as opposed to directly modifying the content of an expanded .war file in the servlet container and restarting the component).
[4](1, 2) See also Variability Configuration.