Thanks Peter. I see how this feature would be useful, but the program I'm
writing a wrapper for has an argument with values corresponding to the input files. I am using a <repeat> tag to maintain this order. With the multi-run option, files are selected in a random manner and added to the job queue. It is best not to display the multi-run option in this case.

I see there is a TODO on this already:
https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-dist/src/a2308bdc93b897af974766b190abe019ade49e9a/lib/galaxy/tools/parameters/basic.py?at=default#cl-2084

For now, I have set allow=False but I believe this is best set at the param
tag level:

    <param type="data" multirun="false" />


Vimal

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com> wrote:
I think this is the (relatively new) Galaxy ability to automatically
run N copies of your tool given N input files, making N outputs
and is related to the collections work.

(This is possible if your tool takes a single input file)

Peter

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Vimalkumar Velayudhan
<vimal@biotechcoder.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to create a select box with the possibility of selecting only a
> single item from the input dataset (figure 1). This works fine but the
> option for selecting multiple files is still visible (figure 2). The
> multiple="false" attribute has no effect.
>
> Figure: http://i.imgur.com/oJVFCoF.png
>
> I have the following in my XML.
>
>     <param format="tabular" name="ribo_files" type="data"
>            label="Select Ribo-Seq alignment file" multiple="false" >
>     </param>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> galaxy-dist revision 5f4c13d622b8
>
>
> Regards,
> Vimalkumar Velayudhan
>
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