I talked to Alan about our latest work on enhancing the workflow explorer [1] and the activity palette [2].
We think that the majority of work on the workflow explorer has been done, but we'll check with Alex when she's back from holiday next week. There's a few things left, such as right clicking to see "Show details". This should in itself be easy, it's just about selecting the component, and then flipping the tab in the Workflow Explorer over to "Details" - the latter of these means a tiny patch to Zaria to enable "showing" a named component and from there flip any tabs. Another is adding a way to right click and 'Configure' various things like beanshell scripts, iteration strategies, etc. Alan and I discussed doing this first as a quick-and-dirty solution adding individual menu items for each of these (ie. one for beanshell, one for soaplab, etc), but one of the issues with this is that the selection (at least when clicking in the graph) is on the Processor, not the Activity, and each of these menu items would then need to peak into the activity list to see if "its" activity was there. Another, possibly longer term solution ties into with the work on the Activity Palette [2]. Here we should add a general SPI registry for configuring activities (as we'll need to be able to recognize "Template services" anyway, and will add a simpler SPI interface that supports tree structures) - and this should be the general way in to finding configuration dialogues for activities. However, we still need individual configurations for Processor components such as iteration strategy and later Retry/Failover etc. I'll be working on these Workflow Explorer things this week. [1] http://www.mygrid.org.uk/dev/wiki/display/story/Taverna+2.1+Workflow+Explorer%2C+Diagram%2C+Contextual+and+Configuration+additions [2] http://www.mygrid.org.uk/dev/wiki/display/story/Taverna+2.1+Activity+Palette+Replacement+Mockup -- Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team School of Computer Science The University of Manchester ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ taverna-hackers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/taverna-hackers Developers Guide: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/usermanual1.7/dev_guide.html FAQ: http://www.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/Mygrid/TavernaFaq
