On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Jesse Erdmann <jerdm...@umn.edu> wrote: > files visible in the first place and hide and link to the other items > generated that aren't as likely to be reused is subsequent tasks. The
That sounds like a good way to use Html outputs - use the html history item to hide all the 'informational' artifacts not likely to be needed for downstream tools but expose anything likely to be needed for further tool processing as a separate history item. Note that at a pinch, users can 'upload' individual html content files by pasting their links into the upload tool URL box if they really need them as individual history items but it's a slightly ugly process so best to explicitly expose the ones likely to be useful downstream. > metadata, like which genome is associated with the output should be > picked up from the parent file if I'm not mistaken. I think this Not automatic. AFAIK You need to explicitly ask - eg if you have an input file called bar and an output file defined something like: <data format="fasta" name="foo" metadata_source="bar" /> then output file foo will have metadata copied over from input file bar > should work well enough for my purposes, even though it's not quite as > clean in the history as I was hoping. Thanks again! > > Jesse > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Jesse Erdmann <jerdm...@umn.edu> wrote: >> Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm still struggling with a couple >> of things. How do I give the user a link to expose the file from >> extra_files_path as a history item and how would I set metadata like >> file format and db on the extra files? Things like PDF and text work >> fine, but I'd really like to be able to have BED and WIG files in the >> history with the UCSC genome browser link. >> >> Thanks again! >> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Ross <ross.laza...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, Jesse, >>> IMHO, the Html datatype is perfect for this. By definition, the >>> composite datatype can have any number of files (of any type!) in the >>> files_path, but of course, your tool or wrapper will need to generate >>> the legal html contents of that html page but that can be done when >>> the files_path already has the outputs - the paths >>> >>> Please take a look at >>> http://lists.bx.psu.edu/pipermail/galaxy-dev/2010-September/003311.html >>> and feel free to ask here if anything needs clarification. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jesse Erdmann <jerdm...@umn.edu> wrote: >>>> I have an in-house Perl tool that generates a double digit number of >>>> outputs that we'd like the user to have access to, but don't >>>> necessarily need to be in the history. A complicating factor is that >>>> the exact number is determined at run time as user input can add any >>>> number of outputs that can't be determined in the scope of the tools' >>>> XML processing. >>>> >>>> Ideally, the end result would be that executing the tool would produce >>>> a single output in the history with the other files either being >>>> hidden or in the extra_files path. The visible file should be an HTML >>>> file that can be used to describe and link to the other outputs as >>>> well as providing the option to either unhide or add the hidden >>>> outputs to the history for use in subsequent analysis. >>>> >>>> I've looked at composite datatypes, but as far as I can tell the >>>> documentation and examples don't cover how to produce a composite >>>> datatype with a variable number of outputs. I briefly tried to use >>>> the deprecated <code> tag to iterate over the results with the other >>>> outputs added as hidden extra files to the index after execution, but >>>> wasn't really excited about using a deprecated feature and couldn't >>>> get it working quickly, regardless. Any other suggestions? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jesse Erdmann >>>> Bioinformatics Analyst >>>> Masonic Cancer Center >>>> University of Minnesota >>>> jerdm...@umn.edu >>>> 612-626-3123 >>>> ___________________________________________________________ >>>> Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" >>>> in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this >>>> and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: >>>> >>>> http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Ross Lazarus MBBS MPH; >>> Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; >>> Head, Medical Bioinformatics, BakerIDI; Tel: +61 385321444; >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jesse Erdmann >> Bioinformatics Analyst >> Masonic Cancer Center >> University of Minnesota >> jerdm...@umn.edu >> 612-626-3123 >> > > > > -- > Jesse Erdmann > Bioinformatics Analyst > Masonic Cancer Center > University of Minnesota > jerdm...@umn.edu > 612-626-3123 > -- Ross Lazarus MBBS MPH; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Head, Medical Bioinformatics, BakerIDI; Tel: +61 385321444; ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/
