Jobs and Tasks

Previous VisualCron users know that one job contained a job type which could be Execute, HTTP etc. In VC3, one job can contain several tasks and one task can be e.g. "Execute". These tasks can be run in a customized order or at the same time.

In the VisualCron client, the job list has two "tracks", where the first track(s) show the job(s). The second child track show the tasks connected to each job. The task and job tracks provide realtime information about next execution and last execution result. Status of each task, including error messages from tasks, are showed in the task list. The output is shown in under the heading columns. The full output is obtained by mouse double-click on the output column.

Jobs can be defined, viewed and deleted by Add, Edit, Clone or Delete. Furthermore, jobs can be managed by the Export and Import functions. Once a job is defined, it can be set to active or inactive.

Anytime, Show statistics are available for all defined jobs.

Jobs can be managed by the main menu Jobs selections, the Toolbar buttons or the mouse right-click menu for a job.

All jobs are listed in the job list area. The job list view can be changed by Set columns and filtering the job list columns.

All executed jobs return an exit code. If a job runs successfully and exits normally, it will return 0 as exit code which means that it is successful. If any error should occur, a different exit code will be used.

Find out more about Windows exit codes.