FR: Add a description field to the "Workspace data" tab Completed

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  Jason Cerrato

  • July 15, 2022 15:01
  • Official comment

  Thank you for implementing this feature, John! Terra users can now add descriptions to their Workspace Data key-value pairs.

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  Geraldine Van der Auwera

  • December 02, 2021 20:46

  Ooh this is a great idea, seconded

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  Samantha (she/her)

  • December 03, 2021 14:50

  Hi John Bates,

  Thank you for writing in! I've sent this request to our development team for consideration, and I'll be happy to follow up with you if this feature gets built.

  Best,

  Samantha​ 

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  John Bates

  • December 21, 2021 00:26

  I implemented this feature myself.  It has been submitted to the terra-ui GitHub repo.

  JIRA Ticket

  GitHub PR

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  Stephanie Gogarten

  • January 17, 2023 07:17

  Is there a way to add data to the Description field via a TSV upload? [This page](https://support.terra.bio/hc/en-us/articles/4417296435483-How-to-add-workspace-level-data-workspace-data-table-) does not mention it, and adding a third row to the TSV file results in an error.

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  Anika Das

  • January 18, 2023 15:03

  Hi Stephanie Gogarten, 

  Thanks for your question! We will look into this and get back to you as soon as we can!

  Kind Regards, 

  Anika

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  Anika Das

  • January 18, 2023 15:55

  Hi Stephanie Gogarten, 

  It is possible to add data to the Description field via a TSV upload. Our recommendation is to use the Terra UI to create/edit a couple Workspace Data keys/values/descriptions, then download that as a TSV. This will give you an example of what the TSV should look like.

  Hope that is helpful, let us know if you have any further questions!

  Kind Regards, 

  Anika

   

   
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  Stephanie Gogarten

  • Edited January 18, 2023 18:06

  Thanks, I was able to do that and see that it's possible. However, the format makes no sense and is not user-friendly at all. The fields are sorted into a completely random order, and the second row of the table is a mix of values and descriptions:

   

  workspace:__DESCRIPTION__col1 | col1 | col2 | col3 | __DESCRIPTION__col2 | __DESCRIPTION__col3
  
  col1 description | col1 value | col2 value | col3 value | col2 description | col3 description

  
  A feature request is to enable uploading of a TSV that is in the same tabular format as the final display format of the data (3 columns with header "key | value | description"); this would be vastly easier and more intuitive for users.

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  Anika Das

  • January 19, 2023 15:13

  Hi Stephanie Gogarten, 

  Yes, the syntax is pretty awkward. Thank you for your suggestion, I will send this feature request to our development team for consideration, and I'll be happy to follow up with you if this feature gets built!

  Kind Regards, 

  Anika

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