Hi Peter, Alex,

Thanks for the tips, the stdout is very useful indeed for a small amount of information. However I want to display a large HTML report with some pictures/plots that will help the user assess the execution of the tool. A hidden output will also not work as I want the XML output item to be the visible one in the history. In the display application context I only get the datasetid of the history item that triggered it (afaik).

Below a small impression of part of the report:

Regards,

Pieter.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Cock [mailto:p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com]
Sent: maandag 2 april 2012 15:38
To: Lukasse, Pieter
Cc: Greg Von Kuster (greg@bx.psu.edu); galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Local display application questions

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Lukasse, Pieter <pieter.lukasse@wur.nl> wrote:

> Hi Greg,

>

> I made a tool for Galaxy which produces a normal XML output file and

> next to that it also produces a HTML report with some quick summarized

> details for the user.

>

> I could solve this by using 2 output files, but ...

That is the normal way to do this in Galaxy, isn't it? You can also use stdout for a small amount of plain text summary output - shown in the history as the 'info' text - perhaps that would be enough instead?

Peter