[galaxy-dev] Best way to allow users to configure a display application url for a toolshed tool

2012-05-02 Thread Ira Cooke
Dear All, Our toolshed tools include a custom display application. Although the display application is open source ( https://bitbucket.org/Andrew_Brock/proteomics-visualise ) we do not yet have a public server for it. Actually, at present it isn't possible to have the application work proper

Re: [galaxy-dev] Best way to allow users to configure a display application url for a toolshed tool

2012-05-02 Thread Daniel Blankenberg
Hi Ira, You'll want to set this up as a dynamic display application, where the link id, name, url, port, etc are defined in an external tab-delimited file. Most of the displays included in the dist are set up this way, one example would be the display_applications/ucsc/bam.xml. For an example

Re: [galaxy-dev] Best way to allow users to configure a display application url for a toolshed tool

2012-05-03 Thread Greg Von Kuster
Hi Ira, You'll need to include an entry for the display application in a datatype_conf.xml file in the tool shed repository- this will result in the display application being properly installed with the repository and made functional in the local Galaxy instance. For details about this, see th

Re: [galaxy-dev] Best way to allow users to configure a display application url for a toolshed tool

2012-05-03 Thread Ira Cooke
Hi Dan and Greg, Thanks for your answers on this. So far I have managed to make things work following Dan's suggestion ... except that I can't seem to get my configuration data file to install into tool-data. I'm not sure why this might be since all my XXX.loc.sample files install into tool-

Re: [galaxy-dev] Best way to allow users to configure a display application url for a toolshed tool

2012-05-03 Thread Greg Von Kuster
Hi Ira, Sample fiel handling for installed tool shed repositories was restricted to .loc.sample files as you discovered. I've enhanced this feature to copy all appropriate .sample files contained in the installed repository to the tool-data directory of the Galaxy instance to which the reposit

Re: [galaxy-dev] Best way to allow users to configure a display application url for a toolshed tool

2012-05-03 Thread Ira Cooke
Hi Greg, Thanks ... that's great. It's all working now. Ira On 04/05/2012, at 3:41 AM, Greg Von Kuster wrote: > Hi Ira, > > Sample fiel handling for installed tool shed repositories was restricted to > .loc.sample files as you discovered. I've enhanced this feature to copy all > appropria