Include process tag in the hoverover of HTML reports

[evanfloden]

When using the hover over feature of the graphs in HTML reports, the process id is shown.

See here.

This is redundant and it would be much more useful to see the task tag so you can see which task is using the specified resource.

So in the example above, instead of showing:

(default_alignment, 36.5)

it would be more informative to see

(task_specific_tag, 36.5)

[pditommaso]

@ewels I need the help of the report guru :) Any chance to see if it's possible to customise the boxplot hover label with the ones provided by NF?

[ewels]

Nope, I'm afraid that this isn't possible. The hover text is for the boxplot (not the dots next to the box plot), and the median doesn't have a task specific tag that we can show. In other words, we're not pointing the to task that's using 36.5, we're pointing to the box plot maximum.

From memory, there was some way to get a tooltip on the dots instead of the box plot, which does then show more useful information. But off the top of my head I can't remember how sorry.

[pditommaso]

I see, so I'm postponing this issue to a future release in which we may use a different chart library.

[ewels]

Maybe I'm wrong - possible that a fairly recent update has addressed this: plotly/plotly.js#192 (comment)

[pditommaso]

Actually I've updated to the latest Plotty version, but I was unable to control the box text display.

[ewels]

It should be in the JS library from v1.32 onwards: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/releases/tag/v1.32.0 (PR was here: plotly/plotly.js#2094)

[pditommaso]

In the master we are using plotly.js v1.34.0.

[ewels]

Hmm, then you should be able to set the hoveron: 'points' property in that case. How did it not work? Just ignored?

[pditommaso]

Frankly, I don't remember the tests I've done.

[ewels]

Super speedy whitespace refactor and addition of the hoveron line here: master...ewels:boxplot_hover

Completely untested at this point, so no idea if it works ;)

[pditommaso]

Nice, I will give a try asap

[pditommaso]

Nope, not working :/

[ewels]

If there aren't any points now, then it won't.. ;) It enables tooltips on the points themselves, not the boxplot.

[pditommaso]

Wait, there are points. It gets an array [min, q1, q1, median, q3, q3, max].

[ewels]

yeah, but not in the plot, to the side of the boxplot I mean.

[pditommaso]

I see. I was thinking it was possible to have in place of labels showed over min,q1,etc.

[ewels]

Nope, that's not possible. Those values are not task data points, they're distributions of a process. So they can't be labelled with the names of data points, only the process name.

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