8c5ceb895b3852e45c5396169285247b7d2792ac
braney
  Tue Aug 18 15:38:36 2020 -0700
open the correct gene track when using hgSuggest with assembliees
without knownGene

diff --git src/hg/lib/suggest.c src/hg/lib/suggest.c
index 70b6916..fcf098b 100644
--- src/hg/lib/suggest.c
+++ src/hg/lib/suggest.c
@@ -1,47 +1,53 @@
 /* code to support suggesting genes given a prefix typed by the user. */
 
 /* Copyright (C) 2014 The Regents of the University of California 
  * See README in this or parent directory for licensing information. */
 
 #include "suggest.h"
 
 
 char *connGeneSuggestTable(struct sqlConnection *conn)
 // return name of gene suggest table if this connection has tables to support gene autocompletion, NULL otherwise
 {
 if(sqlTableExists(conn, "knownCanonical"))
     return "knownCanonical";
 else if(sqlTableExists(conn, "refGene"))
     return "refGene";
 else
     return NULL;
 }
 
 boolean assemblySupportsGeneSuggest(char *database)
 // return true if this assembly has tables to support gene autocompletion
 {
 char *knownDatabase = hdbDefaultKnownDb(database);
 struct sqlConnection *conn = hAllocConn(knownDatabase);
 char *table = connGeneSuggestTable(conn);
 hFreeConn(&conn);
 return table != NULL;
 }
 
 char *assemblyGeneSuggestTrack(char *database)
 // return name of gene suggest track if this assembly has tables to support gene autocompletion, NULL otherwise
 // Do NOT free returned string.
 {
 char *knownDatabase = hdbDefaultKnownDb(database);
 struct sqlConnection *conn = hAllocConn(knownDatabase);
 char *table = connGeneSuggestTable(conn);
 hFreeConn(&conn);
 if(table != NULL)
     {
     if(sameString(table, "knownCanonical"))
+        {
+        if (differentString(knownDatabase, database))
+            {
+            return hdbGetMasterGeneTrack(knownDatabase);
+            }
         return "knownGene";
+        }
     else
         return "refGene";
     }
 else
     return NULL;
 }