On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Björn Grüning <bjoern.gruen...@pharmazie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: > Hi Peter, > >> > I've looked over the wiki and as far as I can see, 'when' tags used inside >> > 'conditional' tags only work on another input variable's values. >> > >> > I would like to be able to do is a conditional based on the file format >> > of an input file. For instance, a tool might take XML or tabular files, >> > and need to show additional parameters for one input type but not the >> > other. >> > >> > Does this enhancement idea seem useful? >> > >> > Peter >> >> Hello again, >> >> I'd still like to be able to show different tool parameters for different >> input file formats - is anyone else interested in using or working on >> this? > > Yes! Im using that for a few of my tools, but currently the user need to > choose the file format, that is suboptimal :(
Thank Bjoern & John for your comments back in March. I've just filed a Trello card for this: https://trello.com/card/-/506338ce32ae458f6d15e4b3/837 This was prompted by revisiting my Venn Diagram tool, where it would be nice to offer a column number parameter when using a tabular input file (but this is not appropriate for FASTA files): http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/venn_list Peter ___________________________________________________________ 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/ To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/
