Hi Nicola, Thank you. I tried the validator as you illustrated, and it worked perfectly.
---------------------------------------------- Ravi Sanka ICS Sr. Bioinformatics Engineer J. Craig Venter Institute 301-795-7743 ---------------------------------------------- On 4/9/14 11:06 AM, "Nicola Soranzo" <sora...@crs4.it> wrote: >Il 2014-04-09 17:00 Sanka, Ravi ha scritto: >> Greetings, >> >> I am adding a new tool to our in-house Galaxy, which has a few string >> inputs. I have made each one a text param in the XML, but want to >> ensure that the user does not leave any empty when he executes the >> tool. >> >> How can I do this? I tried setting the optional field of each text >> param to false, but that doesn't work since, technically, an empty >> string still counts as a string. >> >> Is there a minimum length setting I can enforce? > >Hi Ravi, >you should use a validator, as in the following example: > ><param name="rgid" type="text" label="Read group identifier (ID)"> > <validator type="empty_field" /> ></param> > >Best, >Nicola ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/
