Hi,

Do we have a way (or plans) for sharing tool parameter settings in Galaxy?  

I know the following workarounds :

· Share a history with all users: so users can import your step and do “rerun” to run on their own file with your settings

· Wrap the step in a workflow with all parameters set and publish this workflow: users can run this “workflow”

· Have a dummy tool to produce a settings file and allow the users to choose this file when running the real tool

· Use a conditional and many macros that are basically a copy of each other, only differing in the parameter values

But what I would like to have is a way to define bindings between a settings file and the parameters in the tool form. Any plans, ideas?

Thanks,

Pieter Lukasse

Wageningen UR, Plant Research International

Department of Bioinformatics (Bioscience)

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Wageningen, the Netherlands

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