I'm stumped: Can tools that are destined for the toolshed use <options from_data_table="..." ...> ? In a blast_reporting.xml tool script I have <param name="filter_column" type="select" label="Col"> <options from_data_table="blast_reporting_fields"> <filter type="static_value" value="numeric" column="type" /> <filter type="sort_by" column="name"/> </options> </param> But when this gets submitted as a tar file into a toolshed repository, toolshed comes back with cryptic: Metadata may have been defined for some items in revision '5bbb25b32de2'. Correct the following problems if necessary and reset metadata. blast_reporting.xml - invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'type' I eliminate the <filter type="static_value" value="numeric" column="type" /> line, but similar problem is still reported blast_reporting.xml - invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'name' This hints that maybe the toolshed, when it tests the code, it doesn't know what/where blast_reporting_fields is? Is there some special location that the blast_reporting_fields.loc file should be located within the uploaded tar file? (I tried putting it in various relative paths in the tar file, i.e. root, and under /tool-data/) p.s. the tool runs file with menu functioning in galaxy itself. Thanks for any pro tips you folks can come up with! Damion