Feature request: Send output to new History (top of tool form)

[jennaj]

Describe the bug I sometimes want to rerun a job and have the output sent to a new history.

I also sometimes want to filter the history (tag or keyword or related-items) and move that bundle into a new history to do targeted work.

In short, to start over with just parts of my original working data. This is likely a common way to do research work. Let's make it easier by reusing functions already available in other parts of the app.

I can think of two entry points we don't have, and I think we should do both!

1. Include a "Send to new History" option at the top of the tool form (similar to the Workflow execution). We could consolidate both the data storage location + which history location to write to into a Gear icon on the Tool form. I'm ticketing that here.
2. Add "Copy Datasets" to the Operate on Multiple Datasets listing of options. This was already requested here https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/issues/8798. Not sure of the status?

Drag and drop in Multi-history view is great, but doesn't capture dataset associations like a filter or a rerun. I automatically go to these two other UI places every time I haven't used Galaxy for a few days!

Galaxy Version and/or server at which you observed the bug The Galaxy Server is running version 24.1.2.dev0 , and the web client was built on Monday Aug 26th 6:23:57 2024 GMT-7 .

Browser and Operating System Operating System: Windows, Linux, macOS Browser: Firefox, Chrome, Chrome-based, Safari

Request

Consolidate the single storage icon into a gear icon with both storage and output destinations. A single-click is important here.

• Reusing the original history name in an auto-generated name will help with provenance. "Copied from original-history-name".
• All inputs copied over, then new outputs written to new history.
• Post back a green confirmation banner with the new history name and a link. Similar to other functions (history import, workflow invocation)

Place this workflow invocation gear icon

At the top of the tool form, consolidating storage and output destinations, instead of only offering storage