worflow editor is slow with a large amount of steps
Hi, one of our users has created a large workflow with > 300 steps. Yes he really loves Galaxy :) Unfortunately, its not possible to use the graphical user interface anymore with so many steps. You can't connect boxes and scrolling is also slow. It there any hint how to solve, any workflow redesign already planned or in preparation? I would spend some time in improving it if it's worth. Any pointer to the used Javascript library, or is that mainly solved with the "workflow in a workflow" GSOC project that was merged recently. Trello card is here: https://trello.com/c/dgVrxrHC Cheers, Bjoern
Hi Bjoern, On 21 October 2013 13:38, Bjoern Gruening <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
one of our users has created a large workflow with > 300 steps. Yes he really loves Galaxy :) Unfortunately, its not possible to use the graphical user interface anymore with so many steps. You can't connect boxes and scrolling is also slow.
It there any hint how to solve, any workflow redesign already planned or in preparation? I would spend some time in improving it if it's worth. Any pointer to the used Javascript library, or is that mainly solved with the "workflow in a workflow" GSOC project that was merged recently.
My GSoC project is still under review, pending pull request:https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/pull-request/229/nested-workflow... If loading 300 steps all at once is the only culprit, the 'nested workflows' should be able to address the problem. I do not have any benchmarking stats though. Saket
Trello card is here: https://trello.com/c/dgVrxrHC
Cheers, Bjoern
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Hi Saket,
On 21 October 2013 13:38, Bjoern Gruening <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
one of our users has created a large workflow with > 300 steps. Yes he really loves Galaxy :) Unfortunately, its not possible to use the graphical user interface anymore with so many steps. You can't connect boxes and scrolling is also slow.
It there any hint how to solve, any workflow redesign already planned or in preparation? I would spend some time in improving it if it's worth. Any pointer to the used Javascript library, or is that mainly solved with the "workflow in a workflow" GSOC project that was merged recently.
My GSoC project is still under review, pending pull request:https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/pull-request/229/nested-workflow...
thanks for the update. Lets cross the fingers that it gets merged :)
If loading 300 steps all at once is the only culprit, the 'nested workflows' should be able to address the problem. I do not have any benchmarking stats though.
Great! Do you have any other ideas how to speed it up a little bit. Which JS library is used internally? I think most of the issue is due to slow rendering. Cheers, Bjoern
Saket
Trello card is here: https://trello.com/c/dgVrxrHC
Cheers, Bjoern
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Hi Bjoern, On 21 October 2013 14:11, Bjoern Gruening <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Saket,
On 21 October 2013 13:38, Bjoern Gruening <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
one of our users has created a large workflow with > 300 steps. Yes he really loves Galaxy :) Unfortunately, its not possible to use the graphical user interface anymore with so many steps. You can't connect boxes and scrolling is also slow.
It there any hint how to solve, any workflow redesign already planned or in preparation? I would spend some time in improving it if it's worth. Any pointer to the used Javascript library, or is that mainly solved with the "workflow in a workflow" GSOC project that was merged recently.
My GSoC project is still under review, pending pull request:https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/pull-request/229/nested-workflow...
thanks for the update. Lets cross the fingers that it gets merged :)
If loading 300 steps all at once is the only culprit, the 'nested workflows' should be able to address the problem. I do not have any benchmarking stats though.
Great! Do you have any other ideas how to speed it up a little bit. Which JS library is used internally? I think most of the issue is due to slow rendering.
It is mostly jquery. Have a look at: static/scripts/galaxy.workflows.js If I am correct, this is where all the editor actions are processed. The editor template is at : templates/webapps/galaxy/workflow/editor.mako Thanks, Saket
Cheers, Bjoern
Saket
Trello card is here: https://trello.com/c/dgVrxrHC
Cheers, Bjoern
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Bjoern Gruening <bjoern.gruening@gmail.com> wrote:
one of our users has created a large workflow with > 300 steps. Yes he really loves Galaxy :) Unfortunately, its not possible to use the graphical user interface anymore with so many steps. You can't connect boxes and scrolling is also slow.
Can you do any javascript profiling to see where the time is being spent. If I had to guess, I would say the inability to connect is due to the search through all possible inputs to highlight the connectable ones in green. You could just disable that if the workflow has more than say 50 steps, and switch to just checking on hover. (but that's just a guess) The workflow editor doesn't use any library beyond jquery, all the relevant code to this problem should be in: static/scripts/galaxy.workflow_editor.canvas.js -- James Taylor, Associate Professor, Biology/CS, Emory University
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