ac7e2c05dfbc6de22cb05b368a8028f3ca27e073
max
  Wed Dec 2 01:25:41 2015 -0800
extending extTools.ra help, refs #16308

diff --git src/hg/hgTracks/extTools.ra src/hg/hgTracks/extTools.ra
index 352b9cb..c724ef1 100644
--- src/hg/hgTracks/extTools.ra
+++ src/hg/hgTracks/extTools.ra
@@ -8,30 +8,34 @@
 # $n - current organism name, spaces replaced with underscores
 # $D - current database, like hg19
 
 # Additional ones:
 # $seq - current sequence in view
 # $taxId - taxon id of current db
 # $returnUrl - full URL of current hgTracks page
 # $position - current position, format chr:start-end
 # $halfLen - 1/2 of the current window size (for pointing external tools to the current center)
 
 # If something doesn't work, Hit "Esc" when the redirection takes place and append 
 # &debug=1
 # to the URL shown in the browser (it has hgt.redirectTool=xxx in it)
 # This will show all parameters sent to the external site and lets you edit them.
 
+# Note that these configuration entries do not have to be created manually
+# We have a tool "extToolsChromeParse" that can parse the Chrome debug
+# trace to create them automatically from a traced click on a link in Chrome
+# Run the tool "extToolsChromeParse" and look at its help message for details
 tool NCBIPrev
 shortLabel NCBI Map Viewer
 longLabel NCBI Genome Browser
 url http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/maps.cgi
 email info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 onlyDbs hg19
 isHttpGet true
 param taxId $taxId
 param CHR $s
 param BEG $start1
 param END $]
 param build previous
 
 tool NCBI
 shortLabel NCBI Map Viewer