Cylc 8 GUI display order

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1

At cylc 7 the “text view” showed tasks in definition order, is there a way to get the “tree view” in cyc 8 to do the same?

In one of my more complex workflows I ordered the tasks/families so that they roughly ran from top to bottom in the text view, but this seems to have been lost at cylc 8.

2

You won’t be able to do that, I’m afraid. (We have no plans to support definition ordering in Cylc GUI).

When you say “roughly ran from top to bottom” - would the table view ordered by start time work for what you are trying to achieve?

3

It was more that it followed the dependency graph

FAMA => taskb => FAMC => housekeep

would show up as

FAMA
     taska-1
     taska-2
     etc
taskb
FAMC
    taskc-1
    etc
housekeep

The various sub-graphs in the workflow I’m thinking of basically follow the pattern of a (large) group of tasks, followed by a dummy task indicating the group has finished, which in turn triggered another (large) group of tasks. I generally tried to order the text view to reflect this, even if it didn’t completely match the dependency graph.

4

That sounds like a job for Graph view, falling back to table view if the graph is too big.

5

The graphs in this particular workflow get huge (chunking of ensemble data from multiple models using jinja2, multiple levels of parametrization and family grouping), so the old “text view” was a handy shortcut.

We’ll see how it goes for now, this may be an indication that this workflow has grown too large and needs to be broken up.