Overview
Cyberintegrator web UI design and background.
- Overall principles
- No overwriting of right click menu
- Support for touch?
- Pages
- Workflow Editor & execution
- List workflows
- Workflow editor
- Three columns?
- Tools
- Graph
- Tool parameters and description
- Tools
- Add tool
- Remove tool
- Add connection
- Compatible input ports are highlighted when starting to make connections
- Remove connection
- Selecting tool changes its color
- Clicking on a parameter should highlight that parameter in the parameters windows as well, maybe even scroll to it
Technical details
Mockups
Main layout:
Alternate layout:
Tools on canvas:
Existing Systems
Taverna
Note:
- Web service as a step/input
- Grouping steps
Wings/Pegasus
Note:
- Simple UI (Pegasus Engine/complex workflow)
Kepler
Note:
- Visualizing the steps (models/processes)
- Director (manage the execution)
- Workflow overview (mini map)
Galaxy
- Web-based editor
- tools show inputs and outputs on canvas but not parameters, those are shown in side panel
- overview of layout in bottom right
- tool parameters setting in the right panel
- button to layout
Yahoo Pipes
- tools organized by types
- tool parameters inside each tool on canvas
- tool list can be hidden
- button to layout
Threenode.js/vvvvv
- toll list and tool parameters both in left panel, toggle between them
- zooming ability in bottom right
- ability to play
- streaming workflows (continuously running)
- overwrites right-click menus
- inputs and parameters are the same?
Trident
Karma
