CellProfiler/CellProfiler — Issue #209: JIRA [IMG-550] Skipping modules during pipeline execution
Author: thouis
Created: 2011-11-23 20:50:39+00:00
State: open
Labels: future

This is a feature that was discussed for CP 1.0 but shelved until after the Python conversion.
Email between Mark and Anne from 2008_06_23:
Mark: Though re: skipping modules - I've been thinking about that, either in the form of (1) a series of checkboxes much like the module window display but for specifying module execution, or (2) an individual checkbox, one for module at the top of the module parameter list, that activates/deactivates the module in the pipeline. I wish there was a way to indicate that module has been deactivated in the listbox on the left, like changing the entry's color, but MATLAB doesn't support that.
Anne: that's what I would've liked. I suppose we could put a * or some other marking in the text of it. So, we could just add a button that says'skip' and if you highlight a module in the listbox and press the skip button it adds some marking to the text (yep, graying out the module's name by changing the text color to gray would be cooler - too bad that's not feasible). It would be great to specify figure windows to display in a similar manner (most people probly don't realize there isthe File> Set Prefs option), but having two special symbols in the listbox would be problematic.
Mark: Then there's the issue of what to do with variables in deactivated modules that are requested in later active modules. Hmm, I'll keep thinking about it....
Anne: I think it'd be fine to just have the pipeline fail as normal -'the image cannot be found by the XX module'. I don't think it would require any special handling. If the user is sophisticated enough to be using that mode, they will figure out that they need the result of the module to feed a later one.

Original reporter: mbray
Jira link: https://jira.broadinstitute.org/browse/IMG-550
Fix version: Future
Assignee: leek

**Comment from mbray on Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:21:01 -0400:**
User request for this functionality:http://cellprofiler.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1053