Re: [Taverna-users] User intervention in the workflow

[Paul F. <pau...@ma...>]

Didn't peter li post a workflow on myExperiment to ask for user input, 
then feed it into another process?
I'll see if I can find it.

Paul.

Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 15:57,  <lg...@in...> wrote:
>   
>> Just another doubt... Yesterday I was searching some way to do it and I've
>> found an article "The Taverna Interaction Service". Could I use this
>> Interaction Service too in order to edit the intermediary archive? Or is
>> it too complex for the simple objective I have?
>>     
>
> It is a bit outdated, I'm afraid, but it would be suited for the job.
> It is however a bit tricky to set up, as you need to dedicate a server
> and set email configuration.
>
> (The interaction service works roughly like this:
>   * Workflow asks interaction service for X
>   * Interaction service sends email to user with a link
>   * User visits link to Interaction service web pages, where they'll
> see the request for X.
>   * User sends reply to X  (typically this is just a text field or a
> drop-down box)
>   * Interaction service sends reply to Taverna
>   * Taverna continues workflow with the response from the interaction service.
>
> I believe this is only available for Taverna 1 - but the rough idea is
> that this disentangles the workflow from saying how to ask the user,
> meaning that it should work also when running the workflow from a
> server - the "Ask" worker would not work in that scenario as it would
> pop up on the Server Console, if at all.
>
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