Hello Hans-Rudolf,

Do you know if the 'dynamic_options' attribute also works for control elements other then select menu's?
For example I want to present the user a set of checkboxes that correspond to column names from a file, could I use something like a loop that either iterates on data received from the 'dynamics_option' function or from a meta attribute?

To get a bit further off topic, I made a new tabular datatype that has a meta-attribute for storing column names, but I can't use them in my XML files.. Any ideas would be welcome!

Regards,

Marcel

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Sent: Tue 2/8/2011 10:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] Populating tool select menu with database data?

Leandro

we use the "dynamic_options" attribute, eg:



  <inputs>
     <param name="foo" type="select" label="what"
           help="Use tickboxes to select "
           display="radio"
           dynamic_options="ds_fooOptions()"/>
   </inputs>
   <outputs>
     <data format="fasta" name="output" label="more foo" />

   </outputs>
   <code file="extra_code_for_foo_list.py" />
    <help>
    </help>

  </tool>


and then we have a little python script ("extra_code_for_foo_list.py")
with the "ds_fooOptions" function, eg


def ds_fooOptions():
     """List available foos as tuples of (displayName,value)"""
     foos = <whatever python code is required to generate the tuples
     return foos



I hope this helps, Hans




On 02/08/2011 08:32 AM, Leandro Hermida wrote:
> Hi Dannon,
>
> Sorry that I didn't explain well....  I have a local database with
> certain information and I would like to dynamically populate a Galaxy
> tool select menu with the results of a SQL statement.  Is this
> possible?
>
> best,
> Leandro
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Dannon Baker<dannonbaker@me.com>  wrote:
>> Leandro,
>>
>> Could you elaborate on what you're trying to do, perhaps what database data you're referring to?
>>
>> -Dannon
>>
>>
>> On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Leandro Hermida wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry to bug again,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where I can find an example on how to dynamically
>>> populate a tool select menu with database data?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Leandro
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Leandro Hermida
>>> <softdev@leandrohermida.com>  wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry I tried to search for this and couldn't find an example to this basic
>>>> question.... where can I find an example on how to populate a tool select
>>>> menu with database data?
>>>>
>>>> best,
>>>> Leandro
>>>>
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