Checking the Progress or Status of a Job
The Job Monitor window lets you check the progress or status of any job.
The Job Monitor opens automatically when you start a job. If the Job Monitor is not open, you can open it by:
- Double-clicking a job definition
- Right-clicking a job definition and select Monitor
- Selecting a job definition, then selecting or clicking the Monitor icon in the tool bar
The Job Monitor has two tabs: Progress and Details. The Progress tab shows the general progress of each task that the job is configured to perform. For example, it may show that all of the documents in the job have been extracted, but that the rendering of the documents is still in progress. The Details tab shows you what is happening at that moment, such as:
- which object of the input set is being processed,
- by which document processor,
- which step in the job process it is,
- the status of the step
A concise status of the job can be seen in the status bar at the bottom of the Job Monitor window. Depending on the job selected, you will see one of the following messages:
- Active — if the job is in progress
- Idle — if the job has not been started
- Idle - Last Executed (date/time) — if the job has been run already but is not currently running
You can maximize the Job Monitor so that it fills up the status window in Orchestration Framework Administrator. If you have multiple jobs, you can also open a new Job Monitor for each job. When multiple Job Monitor windows are open you can organize their display in the status window by selecting an option on the Windows menu in Orchestration Framework Administrator.
Right-clicking inside the Details tab 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." |