[kepler-users] Kepler Web UI updates

[Tristan King]

An Extra note:
I've been designing thus under Firefox, and after doing some quick
tests, it doesn't run very well under anything but. Browser
compatibility is high on the task list.

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 14:00 +1000, Tristan King wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've made some fairly major updates to my Proof of concept web UI for
> kepler.
> 
> Web UI is kind of the wrong terminology for this tho. The way I look at
> it, kepler is the workflow design and testing IDE, and what i'm building
> is an alternative execution platform.
> 
> Anyone interested, please have a play, try to break things, and give me
> as much feedback as you can. I think the concepts are a lot easier to
> understand than before, but as before, i came up with the concepts so
> i'm not the right person to judge that. :)
> 
> Here's a bit of a run through:
> 
> http://bow.archer.edu.au/kepler/portal/
> username: test
> password: test
> 
> first page you're presented with (after the login) is the Dashboard.
> This isn't very functional at the moment.
> The recent workflow and notification systems aren't in place yet, and
> the tagged workflows just list all available workflows.
> The links up in the top right corner go to a search page for workflows
> and jobs.
> The grey upload workflow button goes to a form which you can use to
> upload a workflow.
> 
> As for uploading workflows, there is currently very little error
> checking in what is passed into the system. so make sure anything you
> upload is valid. also, please limit output actors to the "Display" and
> "XY Plotter" actors, and make sure the workflow has an end.
> 
> The Workflow View (accessed by clicking on the workflow name in the
> "Tagged Workflows" list of from the workflow search page):
> 
> Provides a View of the workflow, the description, and a job submission
> form. This form displays a list of "exposed parameters".
> I've disabled the moving of the workflows for now, since it was purely
> aesthetic and proved more complicating than useful.
> 
> Clicking the setup button in the top left corner allows the parameters
> in the workflow to be modified and/or exposed.
> 
> After clicking on the setup button, you can double click on actors to
> bring up their properties.
> 
> Checking the "Expose to user" box will cause the property to show up in
> the job submission list.
> 
> The Save Description option isn't implemented yet.
> 
> Click "Done +" when finished with the setup to go back to the view.
> 
> Clicking the "Run Job" button in the bottom right corner will submit
> this workflow with the parameters in the form to be executed.
> 
> Once the Job is finished the Job view (accessable from the Job search
> page, or the "recent jobs" part of the dashboard) displays the start and
> end time of the job and any output from the job.
> 
> Cheers
> -Tristan