Tools configuration: on-the-fly input parameters?

Aviga

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Hello,

I would like to be able to pass some parameters to a user-defined tool (which can be a batch file, a Perl script...) when I execute it.

Currently, as I undestand, we are limited to a fixed list of parameters like #file, #connect, etc.

It would be extremely useful to be able to specify input variables when we run a user-defined tool.

An example: I would like to specify a Project name, in order to read the corresponding "prj" file and generate a script containing "at" commands running the project's content in a specific order, as well as to get all checked-in versioned files belonging to the project, and use my version-control tool info to automatically generate a patch (and associated documentation) out of a PLSQL Project.

I am trying to keep it simple (I already built some of the blocks), therefore I am asking for this possible enhancement to the current Tool Configuration feature. I hope the only solution will not be to create a PlugIn.

Thank you in advance,

Best regards.
 
This is currently not possibe from within the Tool definition, though an external tool can of course prompt a user for input.

I have added this to the list of enhancement requests.
 
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