i'm resurrecting this thread to see if there's any more support for the idea
of deleting intermediate files in a workflow. i think this is an important
feature to have. oftentimes a workflow creates many intermediate files no
one will ever look at. and leaving it up to the user to cleanup their data
files is asking too much. there's another ticket regarding allow users to
still be able to preview the metadata of deleted workflow history items and
together these would go together nicely.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Dannon Baker <dannonbaker(a)me.com> wrote:
Marcel,
It isn't currently possible to delete datasets from within workflows. If
I'm understanding your situation correctly, to simplify the view of a
history after running a workflow, you could use the workflow output toggle
(the asterisk next to each output in the workflow editor view) and select
only the particular outputs you actually want to see. The rest of the
outputs are still in the destination history, but hidden from view by
default. This won't help you with disk space, though, so you might also
want to use the new functionality available for placing the results of a
workflow in a new history to accomplish what you want, deleting the previous
history that was cluttered with inputs after the workflow has run.
Regarding the Galaxy API, you can look at the README file in the
scripts/api/ directory of your galaxy installation (also at
https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/src/76c18b38a3b8/scripts/api/...)
for a some examples and hints to get you started. More detailed
documentation should be available soon though.
-Dannon
On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:15 AM, Kempenaar, M (med) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to let a tool in a workflow manage the users history? For
instance, I have a tool that takes a variable number of user-uploaded CSV
files as input and merges them into one file. Before running this tool, the
user thus has a number of CSV files in the history which I would like to
'replace' with the single merged file.
> I was hoping that when I remove a file from disk that it would also be
removed from the history, but that only results in a 'The resource could not
be found.' error.
> Alternatively, is it possible to create a composite datafile/history item
from uploaded files? In any case, I would like to remove the separately
uploaded files from the users history which makes selecting files for the
next step(s) easier.
>
> (this is a bit of a followup for:
http://gmod.827538.n3.nabble.com/Creating-new-datatype-with-variable-numb...
)
>
> One other question, is there (any) documentation available on the Galaxy
API or a set of example files?
>
> Thanks for your input!
>
> Regards,
>
> Marcel.
>
>
> De inhoud van dit bericht is vertrouwelijk en alleen bestemd voor de
geadresseerde(n). Anderen dan de geadresseerde(n) mogen geen gebruik maken
van dit bericht, het niet openbaar maken of op enige wijze verspreiden of
vermenigvuldigen. Het UMCG kan niet aansprakelijk gesteld worden voor een
incomplete aankomst of vertraging van dit verzonden bericht.
>
> The contents of this message are confidential and only intended for the
eyes of the addressee(s). Others than the addressee(s) are not allowed to
use this message, to make it public or to distribute or multiply this
message in any way. The UMCG cannot be held responsible for incomplete
reception or delay of this transferred message.
>
> _______________________________________________
> galaxy-dev mailing list
> galaxy-dev(a)lists.bx.psu.edu
>
http://lists.bx.psu.edu/listinfo/galaxy-dev
_______________________________________________
galaxy-dev mailing list
galaxy-dev(a)lists.bx.psu.edu
http://lists.bx.psu.edu/listinfo/galaxy-dev