I got a question regarding an automatic execution of my workflow after I open it. I do try to open the worflow as a batch run. That works totally fine and opens knime with the needed workflow. But instead of resetting the workflow and automatically execute it, knime opens the workflow only in a second tab and displays me first the tab “Welcome to KNIME Analytics Platform”. After I close that tab, Knime loads the needed workflow but doesn’t execute it.
Not really. The batch run opens Knime though, but doesn´t start the workflow automatically. Only opens it in a side tab an in the main tab this “Welcome to KNIME Analytics Platform”.
If it helps, you can disable the “Welcome” screen like this:
However, generally, I’m not sure if this approach to “batch run” is right. Normally you shouldn’t see any GUI at all when running a workflow via the batch application.
Hey @qqilihq , Yeah, I was a bit confused about this point, doing a “batch run” and ending up in the UI, I am not sure I understand either.
@PatrickP_MTU , can you explain how you are doing this “batch run”, just in case it is not what we think it is? We usually understand that it means executing a workflow via the command line, and this should not open the GUI
if you have ideas why the workflow needs to be manually resetted first and does not work if remains in executed state as batch run then please add that in your answers as well
Thanks
Hi community. thanks for your replies so far!
Well, I do open the batch run via a command line like this: “[…]lprogs\Knime-AP_E0410\start.bat” -consoleLog -noexit -nosplash -nosave -reset -application org.knime.product.KNIME_BATCH_APPLICATION -workflowDir="[…]\Knime\MySQL_Connector"
rem ------ insert here the Program you want to start------
rem ------ zu starttendes Programm einfügen --------------
set App=knime.exe
rem ############### do not modify the next command ############
rem ############### den nächsten Befehl bitte nicht verändern #
set ReleasePath=W:\Knime-AP_E0410\Release1
start %ReleasePath%%App% %1
It´s becaus it runs (at our company) as a network application which is not installaed on my computer.
Hi @PatrickP_MTU , thanks for the content of the start.bat. Here’s your issue: start %ReleasePath%%App% %1
The %1 means the first parameter, and parameters are delimited by space, so in this case, you are only passing “-consoleLog” to your command. So you’re not telling it to run as batch basically.
Change the %1 to %* and you should be good, like this: start %ReleasePath%%App% %*
Hi @bruno29a thanks for your answer. Unfortounatly I can´t change the start.bat because I would need admin rights. But now I know how I could solve the problem. So do I understand right, that if I change %1 to %* the batch run should start without opening the GUI?! That way the workflow would also reset and execute automatically?
If you are still waiting for the start.bat to be modified, in the mean time, you can actually run “W:\Knime-AP_E0410\Release1knime.exe” instead of the start.bat.
The start.bat is just a wrapper pointing to the proper location of your Knime executable, but currently is failing to pass all arguments properly (%1 vs %*), so you can still call the Knime executable directly since you know where it is from what the start.bat’s code
Hey @bruno29a that was just one great hint! It works absolutly fine now. Such an easy solution. I didn´t notice, that the start.bat shows me the proper location of the knime executable.
Thanks a lot again!