Hi Pieter,

We've worked out what we think is the right way to solve this for Galaxy and expect work to start soon. See the trello card (https://trello.com/c/325AXIEr/613-tools-dataset-collections) for more details.

For your particular tool, the first workaround that comes to mind would be adding a new datatype, say, ZippedInputFiles in your toolshed repository that gets included and used by users, though I haven't actually tried that. That said, I'd probably wait, this feature is high on our list of things to do next.

-Dannon

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Lukasse, Pieter <pieter.lukasse@wur.nl> wrote:

Hi,

Is there any news regarding support for the following scenario in Galaxy:

-      User has N files which he would like to process with a Galaxy tool using the same parameters

-      User uploads a (.tar or .zip ?) file to Galaxy and selects this as the input file for the tool

-      Tool produces an output .zip file with the N result files

I know Galaxy-P had a workaround for this some time ago. But has this been solved in the main Galaxy code base?

Or are there any feasible workarounds that I can add to my Toolshed package to ensure my .zip file does not get unzipped at upload (default Galaxy behaviour)?

Thanks and regards,

Pieter Lukasse

Wageningen UR, Plant Research International

Departments of Bioscience and Bioinformatics

Wageningen Campus, Building 107, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB,
Wageningen, the Netherlands

+31-317480891; skype: pieter.lukasse.wur

http://www.pri.wur.nl

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