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Standalone Jobs and Order Jobs

JobScheduler comes with two types of job that can be used to carry out workflow automation tasks - Standalone Jobs and Order Jobs.

Standalone Jobs are simple to configure but are neither as flexible nor as powerful as Order Jobs. However, Standalone Jobs are quite often used in simpler job scheduling environments and where users have migrated from other job scheduling systems such as TWS which are based on which use a similar concept .such as TWS.

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The following article provides a step-by-step guide introduction to creating both standalone and order jobs and allows an insight to the relative advantages of each approach. and using Standalone Jobs:

Order Jobs and Job Chains

Order jobs and job chains are one of the most powerful arguments for implementing JobScheduler, bringing a an efficient, modular approach to implementing workflow automation.

We have a number of articles providing a step-by-step overview to of Order Jobs and Job Chains.

Introduction to the concepts behind jobs, job chains and orders

Creating a simple Order Job Chain:

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