Dynamic Detour

[wwatson]

It would be really great to have Dynamic Detour tool where you could specify the detour direction as an input to the tool rather than an imbedded control.

This would allow workflow branching.

Using a filter for this passes a dataset with no rows in it which causes dynamic in-db or dynamic input tools to error.

[KylieF]

Hi @wwatson!

Thank you for your feedback! I just wanted check with you if this idea is related to the Programmatic Detour idea since they seem to be in the same vein of thought. If not I would love to hear a bit more in depth on how the functionality you're looking for would work.

[wwatson]

We actually just created a macro using a Python tool and wrote the code ourselves. The code is simple and routes the input stream to one of the outputs based on a second input value.

Something like if input1 = 1 then feed the input2 to output1 else feed input2 to output2. We wrapped this in a macro to turn it into a tool for the users. The macro has 2 inputs and 2 outputs.

Below is our help document for the tool. We are planning a multi output versions where the value fed to the Check input could be 1,2,3,4, or 6 and that would route the main input stream to the matching output anchor.

[haraldharders]

I guess the Control Containers are a superior workaround for this tool...