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Galaxy Interactive Tours

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last_modification Published: Jan 12, 2017
last_modification Last Updated: Jul 27, 2021

What are Galaxy Interactive Tours?

Gif showing an interactive tour. The interface goes through uploading a dataset and several popups show up on the UI to help guide the user in a simple analysis.

An awesome way to learn how to use Galaxy or a specific tool, isn’t it?


How does it work?

Screenshot of part of a tour, the tour is written in YAML and has a steps section with the various steps.

A single YAML file: core.galaxy_ui.yaml


id: galaxy_ui
name: Galaxy UI
description: A gentle introduction to the Galaxy User Interface
title_default: "Welcome to Galaxy"

Content of the YAML:
Steps of the Tour

# A tour is made of several steps, each of them beginning with a dash '-'
steps:
    - title: "Welcome to Galaxy"
      content: "This short tour will guide you through Galaxy's user interface.<br>
                You can navigate with your arrow keys and leave the tour at any
                time point with 'Escape' or the 'End tour' button."
      backdrop: true

    - title: "Upload your data"
      element: ".upload-button"
      content: "Galaxy supports many ways to get in your data.<br>
               Use this button to upload your data."
      placement: "right"
      postclick:
        - ".upload-button"

Definition of a step

Argument Description
title Header of each step-container
content Text that is shown to the user
element JQuery Selector of the element you want to describe / click
placement Placement of the text box relative to the selected element
preclick or postclick Elements that receive a click() event before (preclick) or after (postclick) the step is shown
textinsert Text to insert if element is a text box (e.g. tool search or upload)
backdrop true/false: Show a dark backdrop behind the popover and its element, highlighting the current step

.footnote[Full reference of the properties]


How to obtain the JQuery Selector of the element?

A gif showing the 'inspect element' tool in the browser being used to find the ID of an element.


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Developing the Tours logic


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Thank you!

This material is the result of a collaborative work. Thanks to the Galaxy Training Network and all the contributors! Galaxy Training Network Tutorial Content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.