Managing Jobs

Before you create a job, ensure a profile has already been created (see Managing Profiles).

Create a Job

1. Select Profile Editor.

2. Select a profile and click CREATE JOB.

3. In the Create Job panel, select an extent from the drop-down list or click to create a new extent.

   If you are creating a new extent, enter the X and Y co-ordinates of the new extent, enter a name in the Job Extent Name field, then click SAVE.

4. After the extent is created or selected, you can edit it using   .

   Click UPDATE to save any changes, or click SAVE AS to create a new extent under a different name and leave the previous version unchanged.

5. Click SAVE JOB to add it to the Recent Jobs list, or click RUN JOB to run it.

   A cog indicates that the job is running, and you can click on the job while it is running to view the status.

   If the job fails, an error message is displayed at the top of the page with information about the failure. Otherwise, the job is added to the Recent Jobs list.

Delete a Job

1. Select a job in the Recent Jobs list.
2. Click DELETE JOB.

Viewing Jobs

After a job has run successfully, you can view the data in the map viewer. Click next to the job name to open the map viewer.

The map on the left displays the source data and the map on the right displays the target area that will be generalised.

Use + and - to zoom in and out of the map, and use the arrows to pan.

Click to view any step in the generalisation process. The map is automatically updated to display the selected state.

To compare steps, select each step you want to compare in the left and right map viewers. This can be helpful, for example, to visualise the "before and after" data of a particular step.

Viewing Job Information

To review statistical information about a completed job, select a job in the Recent Jobs list and click .

A page with timing statistics for all the steps run during that job and step details is displayed.

Monitoring Job Statuses

To monitor jobs as they are running, click on the job's name in the Recent Jobs list and click . A panel containing the status of all the steps the job has to complete is displayed.

Each step has a status bar, the number of steps and features processed, the number of errors encountered, and the duration of the time taken to complete each step.

• To refresh the information, click .
• To download a .csv file of the status information, click .

Viewing Job Errors

Jobs containing errors have a next to the job name in the Recent Jobs list.

To view information about the error, select the job and click . A summary page listing all error information is displayed.

On this page, the number of occurrences of the error is shown. To view each occurrence in more detail, click the error message. A page shows the error message, stack trace information, and the instances sorted by class and job.

In the Job Name area, the error details for each job can be downloaded as an XML file by clicking .