Wooey UI

Wooey’s homepage provides a list of all scripts available to a user.

_images/Wooey_Home.png

From here, a user can choose a script to configure for execution. On all pages a header menu is available that provides the number of running scripts, the number of queued scripts, and the number of scripts that has finished executing. Users can select these header items for further inspection of pending or completed jobs. Additionally, there is a scrapbook where a user can save results from previous jobs for easy access and a language menu item for translation of Wooey’s interface to various languages (If your language is not currently supported, we would love to add it!).

Running scripts

Scripts may be accessed via the homepage or by searching for scripts in the script search. Searching for scripts is accessible via the left menu sidebar that is viewable by clicking the menu button on the left side of the header. From the script panel, scripts can be parameterized and executed by Wooey. If a script has subparsers, they are accessible via a dropdown menu on the upper left of the script parameter panel (in a script with subparsers, this simply has the text Settings). Because most subparsers have a “main” parser, such as Django’s manage.py, these settings can be specified via the Main Parser Parameter button. To select and parameterize a given subparser, the subparser command and its parameters are available by selecting it via the dropdown menu.

Running previous versions of a script

Previously uploaded scripts are kept in Wooey, providing a mechanism for to evaluate script changes and give end-users an opportunity to provide feedback. In the admin interface, there is an option to set a script version as the default version to use, but previous versions are accessible from the main UI via the black down array next to the script name. There are 2 deliniations specified here – the Script Version, and the Script Iteration. If a command line generating tool supports versioning (and Wooey is able to parse this information), updates to the script version will result in a new version being created. If a command line library doesn’t support versioning or the version has not been updated in a script, the Script Iteration counter will be incremented.