17af3825ff150ad27d687ebc7f1ebfddab473035
braney
  Thu Nov 9 15:14:26 2017 -0800
change error message for missing id in refLink #20505

diff --git src/hg/hgc/hgc.c src/hg/hgc/hgc.c
index 8940ada..2b404e3 100644
--- src/hg/hgc/hgc.c
+++ src/hg/hgc/hgc.c
@@ -11760,31 +11760,31 @@
 char *summary = NULL;
 boolean isXeno = sameString(tdb->table, "xenoRefGene");
 struct refLink *rl;
 
 /* Make sure to escape single quotes for DB parseability */
 if (strchr(rnaName, '\''))
     {
     sqlRnaName = replaceChars(rnaName, "'", "''");
     }
 /* get refLink entry */
 if (version == NULL)
     {
     sqlSafef(query, sizeof(query), "select * from %s  where mrnaAcc = '%s'", refLinkTable, sqlRnaName);
     sr = sqlGetResult(conn, query);
     if ((row = sqlNextRow(sr)) == NULL)
-	errAbort("Couldn't find %s in %s table - this accession may no longer be available.", rnaName, refLinkTable);
+        errAbort("This accession (%s) is no longer in our database. Check NCBI for status on this accession.", rnaName); 
     rl = refLinkLoad(row);
     sqlFreeResult(&sr);
     }
 else
     {
     sqlSafef(query, sizeof(query), "select * from %s r, %s g where mrnaAcc = '%s' and r.mrnaAcc=g.acc and g.version='%s'", refLinkTable,gbCdnaInfoTable, sqlRnaName, version);
     sr = sqlGetResult(conn, query);
     if ((row = sqlNextRow(sr)) == NULL)
 	{
 	sqlFreeResult(&sr);
 	return NULL;
 	}
     rl = refLinkLoad(row);
     sqlFreeResult(&sr);
     }