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# Requirements and Hints

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% - InlineJavascriptRequirement
%   - Maybe list cases where it is not really necessary? e.g. https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-language/issues/389
%   - Covered by the **episode 13** of the current User Guide - https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/13-expressions/index.html
% - InitialWorkDirRequirement
%   - Staging Files (a common topic, and appears in questions on discourse/element... maybe it deserves a more prominent location?)
%     - Writable inputs - https://github.com/common-workflow-language/user_guide/issues/36
%     - Creating files at runtime, from **episode 14** of the current User Guide - https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/14-runtime/index.html
%     - There is a whole **episode 15** in the current User Guide about it - https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/15-staging/index.html
%   - DockerRequirement
%     - Covered in the **episode 7** of the current User Guide - https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/07-containers/index.html
%   - SchemaDefRequirement and input schemas
%     - The **episode 19** from the current User Guide covers it - https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/19-custom-types/index.html
%   - ShellCommandRequirement - https://github.com/common-workflow-language/user_guide/issues/159
%   - SoftwareRequirement - From the **20** from the current User Guide - episode https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/20-software-requirements/index.html
%   - MultipleInputFeatureRequirement
%     - Also in **episode 24** of the current User Guide - https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/24_conditional-workflow/index.html
%   - SubworkflowFeatureRequirement
%     - Also in **episode 22** of the current User Guide - https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/22-nested-workflows/index.html
%   - ScatterFeatureRequirement
%     - Also in **episode 23** of the current User Guide - https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/23-scatter-workflow/index.html