Support rounding of columns with numeric values

[heralden]

If a column is numeric, a button should appear in its column header that allows rounding of the numbers to a chosen decimal point. This rounding will only apply to the values of this column, on this specific table.

[AdrianBZG]

Also, an option to round all numbers in all columns by default would be helpful, otherwise the user would need to be clicking the round button in every column each time a page is accessed.

[heralden]

The team thought that having it by default wouldn't be a good idea.

I guess the middle ground would be to have it global then. I think there are some different approaches:

• Should it be configured by a user to apply to all instances of that column in all im-tables in Bluegenes?
• Should a mine admin configure a default, i.e. they set which columns (by path) should be rounded and to which decimal?

I'm guessing the second one is what you want?

[AdrianBZG]

Yes, the second one sounds like a good approach, although that would mean specifying columns path by path. In some sources I have more than 20 columns with decimal numbers, so that's why I was suggesting to also have some kind of global rounding option. But it's fine to go with the second option you mention.

[heralden]

Do those 20 columns point to the same class? If so we could instead specify rounding for classes.

Edit: The rounding should be specified for an attribute of a class.

[AdrianBZG]

Yes, they belong all to the same class

[heralden]

Sounds good! We'll have to figure out where this should be defined, but I'm guessing it will be in a property file on the Intermine backend.

[danielabutano]

We can use the webconfig_model.xml file, in the mine instance, to add the new property rounding