On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 13:39, Rinku  Saha <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is it anyway possible to save a workflow file in any format  in my  local
> computer and can be used as a processor for another workflow .

This sounds like you just want to add it as a so-called nested
workflow - to add a workflow (as a processor) inside another workflow.

If you use the "Add Nested Workflow" button you can select the
workflow from your local disk, as previously saved with File->Save.


The main disadvantage of doing this instead of the scavenger-route is
that you would not have your nested workflow in the "Available
processors" panel - but would have to select the file every time you
need to use it.

The scavenger-route can be useful when you have many such component
workflows (kind of a toolbox of nested workflows) that you want to
reuse.

To get the correct format of the file URIs, which admittedly can be a
bit tricky on Windows due to C: and the use of spaces in folder names,
but one way is to use a browser like Firefox or Chrome (but not IE, as
it would open Windows Explorer)  - start from file:/c|   (or
file:///C: or something like that) and navigate to your workflow
directory. Once you've found your workflow in the browser's directory
representation, right click on the link and select "Copy link"

Paste this URL into Taverna after right-clicking on "Available
processor" and selecting "Add new Workflow scavanger…". You should see
a new branch named after your filename, and you can expand it to see
the processors of that workflow.

To add this as a nested workflow, drag the workflow itself down to
"Processors" in the "Advanced model explorer".

If you want to pick-and-choose from the workflow instead, drag the
processors individually down to your workflow - note that you would
then have to wire them up yourself.

If you want to merge the content of the workflow with your current
workflow (instead of including it as a nested workflow processor) -
right click and select "Import" - you can provide a prefix to avoid
name conflicts.

-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester

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