Galaxy doesn't really support this use case and it will be major effort to get it work this way I suspect. Pieces to look at include:
The Galaxy Tool Factory (it has the ability to create reusable tools from scripts): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23024011 You may be able to modify it in such a way that each tool is tagged with who created and then use ToolBox filters to limit added tools to a given user: https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/UserDefinedToolboxFilters I think the latest version of Galaxy has improved support for adding tools without requiring restarts (using message queues). I don't know if this will automatically work with the tool factory or not. I suspect fighting Galaxy at every step on this will frustrate you and the users - and you are exposing all of your users data to every user you give this privilege to. Is this a shared cluster or is dedicated to Galaxy? If it is shared - it might be better for advanced users to just get importing and exporting data to user directories really well. In my previous position at MSI we created a set of tools that allowed Galaxy to SCP files as the user to our login nodes (using a SSH key scheme) - likewise creating directories user's can upload files can enabled power users. Hopefully this helps, -John On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Karthik Gururaj <gururaj.kart...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > We have a centralized Galaxy installation for out cluster which can be > used by many users (backend interfaces with HTCondor to run jobs). Is there > any way for non-administrator users to import/install their own tools so > that they may use it in their workflows (under a subsection called > "unstable", for example? Ideally, without having to restart the Galaxy > daemons whenever a change is made. > It would be fine if these tools are not visible to other users till the > administrator says so. > Thanks, > Karthik > > ___________________________________________________________ > 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/ ___________________________________________________________ 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/
