One of my colleagues is having trouble developing a peculiar tool: it has no inputs. This makes sense in our local context – it fetches some constantly updating remote data for the current user – but implementing it has escaped our skill. Galaxy complains about a tool with no params (i.e. an empty <inputs>). It complains about a tool with no <inputs> tag. Hidden input fields don’t seem to work (i.e. looks like I’m getting the cached value of the form).
It is admittedly a fairly niche use-case and we could put in a dummy field and simply not use it, but that seems inelegant. Any suggestions?
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Paul Agapow (paul-michael.agapow@hpa.org.uk)
Bioinformatics, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency