On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Aleksey Jironkin <Aleksey.Jironkin@phe.gov.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to prevent auto-selecting an option
> for Running a workflow? Quiet often users (especially novices) would
> re-run workflows without checking much the data that goes in thinking it
> will be the same as before. But because the options in drop down menus
> are auto-populated it seems the top option is always selected by
> default. For example, previously we had a single fasta file as reference
> and in the process of a workflow few other fasta files get generated.
> they appear above the previous fasta in the selection, so without paying
> attention people skip the input without really checking it.

This behavior would be a bug - workflow parameters should be preserved. What release are you on - we fixed a bug related to this after the initial August release (https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/commits/5abd9fc76f7ad2eca013a1f81a77a4d3fe28328a) that should be available in the latest august stable tag.

Is it possible you were on the August release but don't have this fix?

If it is a bug and is still present in the latest stable branch if you could provide steps to reproduce it in a clean clone of Galaxy it could go a long way toward helping us track down a fix.

-John

>
>
> Can we manually add a "blank" selection at the top to force users to
> select something?
>
>
>
> Alex
>
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