[kepler-dev] The 'poor man's Kepler Repository'

[Dan Higgins]

Hi Shawn,
    I am not sure I see a lot of cases where one would want to move an 
entire workflow to the actor library (and one cannot do that directly 
right now even from a local workflow). But if you wanted to (or just 
want to add some collection of actors to the library), you can select 
the set of actors (including the entire workflow), then select 
'Tools/Create Composite Actor' and combine the contents of the selection 
into a single composite. The composite can then be put into the library.

Dan

Shawn Bowers wrote:

> Dan Higgins wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >     In yesterday's conferece call we spent some time discussing a 
> Kepler
> > repository. Well, it turns out that you can share workflows using the
> > current system and a simple web html server. To see an example:
> >
> > 1)open Kepler
> >
> > 2) go to the menu 'File/Open URL..."
> >
> > 3) enter the url "http://nceas.ucsb.edu/~higgins/R_in_Kepler.html"
> >    Kepler will display the R_in_Kepler web page. (Actually it will
> > display most web pages; it is a simple web browser)
> >
> > 4) Click one of the links. The remote workflow will be opened.
> >
> > 5) You can then run the workflow (all these quick examples require R to
> > be installed). Or you can select an actor (one of the R actors) and
> > "Create KAR from actor..." to add it to the local machine (or save the
> > workflow)).
>
> Thanks Dan -- I think this is great.
>
> What would be cool is if we could get it to recognized kepler archive
> files (.kar files), and upon selection, kepler could prompt the user
> to either: (1) import the archive (i.e., load it's components into the
> library; (2) open the model (if it is a model); or (3) both.
>
> The current open url functionality allows us to open these external
> models, but we can't easily store them into the library ... (only the
> underlying actors).
>
> -shawn
>
> >
> > Dan
> >
>


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