and if you use something like;

label="#echo os.path.splitext ( str ( $input.name ) ) [ 0 ] #-BWA.bam"

You can change "SomeFile.fastq" into "SomeFile-BWA.bam".

This allows you to remove the extension (.fastq in this case), insert some extra text after the original name and set the right extension (Not needed for Galaxy, but we are all used to seeing those labels)...

I do this for all the tools in galaxy (bit of a pain, but worth it) so they produce more intelligent names than "12: X on data 10" etc.

Thon

On Oct 26, 2012, at 08:12 AM, Joachim Jacob joachim.jacob@vib.be wrote:

Hi,

You can use label="$input.name"

Cheers, Joachim

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On 10/26/2012 04:38 PM, Darin wrote:

Hello,

I'm new to Galaxy, and I've been asked to tweak some tools so that output file names are related to input file names. For example, an input file of myData.abc might lead to an output file named myData_afterMyTool.xyz.

I think the user is really just interested in the labels showing up in the history panel, so that gives me some flexibility.

In my development environment, I've changed one tool's xml file's output tag to this:

<outputs> <data name="out_file1" format="bed" label="${input1}_afterTool.xyz"/> </outputs>

... and that seems to work, but it's using an internal file name, instead of the label for the input file.

So - does anyone know if there's an easy way to get the label from the input file into the output label, instead of the path/dataset_n.dat file format for this name? If there's a better way to approach this, I'd love any suggestions on that, too.

Thanks,

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On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Peter Cock p.j.a.cock@googlemail.com wrote:

i.e. This isn't something each tool author should be doing, but something general that should be in Galaxy itself.

Yes, we would very much like a visual/graphical indicator of dataset ancestry, and possibly an alternative history view that was graph based. On the big list once the new History UI framework is done.

(I imagine people will still want to customize labels though).

-- jt