Hi taverna-users, We'd like your opinion on the Run Dialog in Taverna (the one you get when you try to run the Workflow and you need to specify your workflow inputs). We are doing some changes to it and want to get it right, i.e. do what most of you want.
Currently, you get a dialog that is modal (i.e. stays on top of the main Taverna window) and does not let you bring the main Taverna window at the same time. Also, when you click the Run button on the dialog - it closes it and switches to the Result perspective where you see the progress of the workflow run. You can bring it up again if you click on the Run button again in the main menu or in the toolbar and it will show the dialog with the last used input values. So the questions are: (1) Do you want the run dialog to be non-modal so you can bring the main Taverna window into focus? (2) Do you want the Run Dialog not to close after pressing the Run button and to simply get minimised in the case it is non-modal? If it gets closed then you can bring it up again from the File/Run menu of the top toolbar. If it gets minimised you can always just click on it to bring it up again. (3) Do you want a separate Run Dialog per workflow or only one RunDialog for the currently run workflow? In the first case if you tried running 2 different workflows you'd have two different Run Dialogs minimised that you can bring up. If you ran the same workflow e.g. 10 times, there would still be one Run Dialog for that workflow though. So one Run Dialog per workflow, but multiple runs of the same workflow would get the same Run Dialog with the last input values saved. In the second case, the Run Dialog will only refer to the workflow currently being run and you would not be able to see the input values you used when you ran other workflows. The suggestion we got from our in-house users is to use non-modal Run Dialogs, one per workflow, and not to close them but minimise them after having finished with entering inputs. This is similar to Taverna 1, but you do not get a different dialog for different runs of the same workflow, rather you just have one dialog per workflow that remembers last used values. OK, cast your votes. Cheers, Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ taverna-users mailing list [email protected] [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/
