Taverna Provenance Browser Plugin

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Binaries

• Distributed with TavernaProvenancePlugin

Anonymous CVS:

• Host: cvs.mygrid.info
• Path: /usr/local/cvs/mygrid
• Module: /EnactorInvocationBrowser

Installation

• Part of the Taverna 1.4 release
• Otherwise:
  • Automatic if you install the binaries of TavernaProvenancePlugin.
  • Otherwise, with the source of TavernaProvenancePlugin downloaded and correctly installed, building the Browser Plugin using the ant build file will distribute the plugin and make it available from within Taverna via the "Tools and Workflow Invocation" menu.

Author

• MatthewGamble^?

Tutorial

Functionality

The plugin allows you to browse the provenance information collected by the TavernaProvenancePlugin:

Starting it up

To start it from Taverna, click on the Tools and Workflow Invocation menu of Taverna and then on Provenance Browser:

Browsing workflows

Workflow runs are ordered by their title. Clicking on a title and on then on the diagram tab you can browse the latest version of that workflow you have run:

Rerunning workflows

To re-run a workflow just select it and then click on the Reload Workflow button of the browser. This will have the effect of removing the current workflow in the workbench and loading the selected one which you can then run as usual:

Iterations

The provenance browser orders the processes in a run by their end time and gives a more refined view of iterations than the one given by the Enactor Invocation window:

Nested Workflows

The provenance browser also allows to explore the execution of past nested workflows:

Troubleshooting

If provenance collection is filling your disk space, just move or delete the provenance folder which is created in the folder .taverna in your home directory. (In Windows XP this is C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\.taverna\provenance, while in Mac OS X it is /Users/your user name/.taverna ).

The simplest way to disable the plugin is to rename the provenance.properties file in the conf folder in Taverna:

After that, when you try to launch the browser you get a warning message, followed by an empty window:

For more bugs and tips see TavernaProvenancePluginOneZero#Troubleshooting_and_known_bugs