Feature Request around Loops

[richards99]

Hi,
Would be so useful to have on the node somewhere of a Loop Start node, what loop number it is on, and how many loops there are, i.e. Loop 4 of 10.
At the moment, having to bring up the table and go to Flow Variables tab to see it is a little clunky, to get an idea of current progress.

Thanks

Simon.

[HansS]

Hi @richards99

For this I use the Node Annotaror node. The message which should appear as node annotation. You can access flow variables like current iteration or max iterations within the message.

gr. Hans

[richards99]

Thanks very much for this. I didn’t know about this node!

[HansS]

Hi @richards99

Your question inspired me to make the Loop Progress a little bit more user friendly. I created 3 components to track the Loop Progress.

Since there is always room for improvent. I combined those 3 components into 1.

You can find the components on My KNIME Hub:

Generic Loop Progress – hanss

gr. Hans

[takbb]

Nice components @HansS. I’d made a component using Node Annotator for similar reasons, but with just the basic iteration counter.

Loop Count Annotator – takbb

I particularly like your ideas for including percentage and group information.

[s.roughley]

That’s really nice - I didn’t know about those nodes

An you have the ‘NoOp’ nodes too - I’ve been thinking about writing exactly those nodes for exactly the same purpose for some time

Steve

[qqilihq]

Great to see these darlings in action - if you have any feedback, comments, requests, you know who to reach out for - fyi @danielesser

[Iris]

I random stumble over this one and would like to add for completion that you get this also in the Table view at the bottom.