Ryan,

This is possible using the relatively new tool_dir tag.

<tool_dir dir="path/to/tools" />

This still looks in the tool path like other the normal tool tag.

-John

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Björn Grüning
<bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
>
> have you looked at this option?
>
> # Set to True to enable monitoring of tools and tool directories
> # listed in any tool config file specified in tool_config_file option.
> # If changes are found, tools are automatically reloaded.  Watchdog (
> # https://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog ) must be installed and
> # available to Galaxy to use this option. Other options include 'auto'
> # which will attempt to watch tools if the watchdog library is available
> # but won't fail to load Galaxy if it is not and 'polling' which will use
> # a less efficient monitoring scheme that may work in wider range of
> scenarios
> # than the watchdog default.
> #watch_tools = False
>
> Cheers,
> Bjoern
>
>
> Am 11.06.2015 um 18:09 schrieb Ryan G:
>> Right now for each tool I have, I have to list the xml file per tool in
>> tool_conf.xml.  I'd like to specify a directory that Galaxy will scan for a
>> list of xml files and load all of them.  So instead of:
>>
>> <section id="myTools" name="Custom Tools">
>>   <tool file="mytools/tool1.xml" />
>>   <tool file="mytools/tool2.xml" />
>>    ....
>> </section>
>>
>> I can do:
>>
>> <section id="myTools" name="Custom Tools">
>>   <tool file="mytools/*.xml" />
>> </section>
>>
>> I'd add this to Trello but unfortunately my company blocks the site.
>>
>>
>>
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