Hi @bethp – Glad that will work for you and from what I can find out, I think you are right about the other analysis variation – it was introduced in the Qimme2 package and all of those work with the qza artifacts.
You can create the artifacts in Galaxy but refer to the original docs for how to get those organized correctly (especially the sample sheets aka “metadata” files). More “how to in Galaxy” is pending for that suite, and the create tool itself will probably update, along with an automatic link out to the artifact inspector. For now you can download the qza/qzv from Galaxy then use their website.
This prior topic has the most details all in a summary, including feedback from the tool author himself! → unable to use .qza files
If you run into a specific usage problem not covered in the tool docs we can try to ping them with your new questions, too, if I am unsure about how to solve it. 