On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Ulf Schaefer Ulf.Schaefer@phe.gov.uk wrote:
Dear all
We frequently find ourselves in situations where a tool needs to be run with a lot of input files. For example, run the GATK UnifiedGenotyper with easily dozens of bam files.
Using the <repeat> in this case requires quite a bit of clicking. Is there a more conventient way fo doing this? Maybe similar to the multi-file-select that is possible for workflow inputs?
I saw some older discussions on this or similar issues, but I am a bit lost what the current official stable proposed solution for this is.
Thanks for your help Ulf
Use <param type="data" multiple="true" ... > instead of using <repeat ...><param type="data" ...></repeat>.
I asked John Chilton about this recently via Twitter, and it is now on the wiki, http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Tools/ToolConfigSyntax
Simple example here: https://bitbucket.org/galaxyp/galaxyp-toolshed-iquant/src/tip/iquant.xml?at=...
Peter