Setting string constant as boring will be very helpful if we cannot set 
user-defined global variable in Taverna. 

Thanks!

> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:07:36 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Taverna-users] global variable
> 
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 16:59, Roger D <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What I meant is a processor through which one can set user-defined variable,
> > yes, $dog, $cat if he wishes, and then one can use $dog in inputs of any
> > other processors -- I am not terribly interested in picking up the
> > environment variables.
> >
> > Using string constants work for me, but isn't the workflow becoming ugly if
> > I have 35 processors connecting to the same string constant?
> 
> It might become a bit more cluttered, perhaps if we reintroduced the
> 'Set as boring' feature we had in Taverna 1? Then the String constant
> and it's links would be hidden by default from the graphical view.  Do
> you think this could be a good solution? The string constant would
> still be listed in the Workflow Explorer so that one could change the
> value.
> 
> 
> (We've also wanted to have extended 'Boring' support for shims so that
> you could also hide things in the middle of the workflow, this never
> worked in Taverna 1 - but it could be useful to kind of 'collapse'
> non-interesting shim processors and just have a little dot on the data
> link)
> 
> -- 
> Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
> School of Computer Science
> The University of Manchester
> 
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