Save currrent HTML view as HTML

[YasinEl]

Hello and thank you for maintaining this.

I am creating empress HTMLs, through:

empress tree-plot --tree $tree --feature-metadata $metadata --output-dir empress_results

After that I manually set up different bar plots etc in the HTML.

I was wondering if there is any way to save that manual progress in the HTML (to send it to collaborators, etc.). Setting up views can be time-consuming, and maintaining the interactive aspect is essential for many things (i.e., this is not solved through the svg/png export).

[YasinEl]

Just realized this has been already requested in #551. So I understand this is not yet possible?

[fedarko]

Hi -- sorry, this functionality is not currently supported in Empress. It would be really useful to have it (I'm aware that manually configuring the barplots, etc. multiple times is a pain point); however, at least speaking personally, I don't have time to address it right now. I hope this situation will change sometime soon.

Regarding #551, I think the plan we had there was using a JSON format (like Emperor uses) to support exporting / importing the Empress settings. So, in the workflow of e.g. sharing an Empress HTML visualization with your collaborators, this would mean that you would also share a small JSON file alongside the HTML file, which could later be loaded in the Empress interface to automatically customize the visualization as it was before. Does this fit your needs?

[YasinEl]

Thank you.

I imagine it would fit the needs if it was possible to place the json into the empress project folder under a specified name and have it auto-load from there/save to there by clicking a button.