In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure settings to publish a custom tool for public use. We will publish a custom tool that returns current time in a given timezone. You can learn how to build this tool in our previous tutorial.
Click "+ New" and select "Tool" to craete a new template for publishing
Engine - Publish Section
Publishing a tool means that only the node with the custom tool you created will be packaged into a service.
Input configuration details
Tool Template Setting - Configurations Section
The description will be visible for your tool's users, so make sure to include all the information a user or a developer may want to know.
A slug is a unique part of the URL of yout service, it will appear at the end. We recommend using underscores or hyphens instead of spaces and keeping the slug short.
Configure service input setings
Tool Template Setting - Service Section
The service inputs define what data is passed to the tool. In this case, to get the current time, you need to input the time zone. The inputs are automatically detected from the properties section in the script of the tool.
Confugire additional settings
Tool Template Setting - Service Section
For the purpose of this tool, no further actions, collaborators or organization are needed to be specified.
After the publishing of the tool, you can add specific tasks as examples.
