Reviewing Job History
You can review the history of any job that you have run (assuming you have not deleted the job definition). History information includes:
- a record of each time the job was run
- all of the files that were processed, each time the job was run
- what errors occurred, if any
Note: Starting in CONNECT Edition
Update 3.1, job history is now stored in the database instead of the working
directory. With this change, the
Job History window will now only show job history that is stored
in the database. Unless you have manually deleted them, job history from older
jobs (up to CONNECT Edition Update 3) can still be found in
.HST files in the working directory.
To review the history of a job, select the job definition in the Bentley iCS for PDF Browser and select . The Job History window opens inside the status window. If you have multiple jobs, you can open a Job History window for each job definition. From the Job Execution Time list, select the time and date for the job history you want to review.
Right-clicking in the Job History window offers the following options:
| Menu Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Display Message | If you cannot read all of the text that displays in a particular cell, you can double-click that cell, or right-click the cell and select Display Message, to open a window containing the entire text message. |
| Locate Document | You can quickly locate the source document by right-clicking the document in the window and selecting Locate Document. ProjectWise Explorer opens directly to the selected source document's folder and highlights the document. |
| Explain Why | If you need a full explanation of what happened to a particular document, right-click the document's status description and select Explain Why. This opens a window with an explanation. For example, if you right-click the status description, "Distribution Complete", then select Explain Why, a window opens with the explanation: "The source file is being distributed because it is a member of the input set and has never before been distributed to this target." |