Hi Katherine:

I’d recommend not having users type in paths if at all possible (they will make frustrating mistakes).
If there is a selection of these maybe consider turining them into dropdown lists.

Either way,  these would be no different than e.g. user specified downsampling  amounts. or library names, etc.
I have tools that accept many of these.


Brad

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Brad Langhorst, Ph.D.
Development Scientist
New England Biolabs




On Aug 26, 2016, at 10:57 AM, Katherine Beaulieu <katherine.beaulieu014@gmail.com> wrote:

What if its multiple file paths that the user types in rather than actual files, which makes it so the tool can't be executed in batch mode, would it still be workflow compatible at that point? Thanks for pointing me to the Bowtie wrappers as an example.