Hi John Looks like nobody has replied so far.....hence, I present once again our quick-and-dirty solution for this: We use the "dynamic_options" attribute, eg: <inputs> <param name="foo" type="select" label="what" help="Use tickboxes to select " display="radio" dynamic_options="ds_fooOptions()"/> </inputs> <outputs> <data format="fasta" name="output" label="more foo" /> </outputs> <code file="extra_code_for_foo_list.py" /> <help> </help> </tool> and then we have a little python script ("extra_code_for_foo_list.py") with the "ds_fooOptions" function, eg def ds_fooOptions(): """List available foos as tuples of (displayName,value)""" foos = <whatever python code is required to generate the tuples return foos> In our case, we have some python code reading the contents of a directory, and the providing the file names which pass a certain regular expression. It shouldn't be a problem to get the list of items from a database instead. I hope this helps, Hans On 12/09/2011 09:54 AM, John Major wrote:
Hello Gal-Dev,
I've been poking around looking for a way to define a tool and be able to define a dynamic set of values for a property dropdown. Say, I wanted to present a list of transcipt ID's in my tool page, with this list drawn from a database local to my system.
Is there any mechanism to do this?
thanks- john
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