How to link jobs to custom documentation sources

Adding documentation links to job titles

Links can be added to job titles.
These are mainly intended to be used to provide a convenient link to job documentation.

Such links can be added in JOE (JobScheduler Object Editor) as shown in the screenshot below, which shows a simple HTTP link:

In JOC (JobScheduler Operations Center) this link will then look like this:

The following conditions have to be met before a title containing an URL will be shown in JOC:

• The URL has to start with "http://", "https://" or "www.".
• The URL has to end with a space or the title itself has to end with the URL.
• Punctuation marks are allowed after an URL.
• More than one link is possible.

Links can also be placed in "a" tags as shown in the following examples:

Example 1

Open JOE and type the following text in the title field of a job:

 See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/jobscheduler/index.php">here</a> for more information and also www.sos-berlin.com

JOC will now show the following title for the job:

Example 2: Links to documentation within the SCHEDULER_DATA directory

JOC knows a virtual directory ./scheduler_data/jobs which points to the jobs directory in the working directory of the JobScheduler.
So, when a link in the job title is defined with ./jobs/my_job_descriptions/test1.html, JOC will look for the file at the location ./scheduler_data/jobs/my_job_descriptions/test1.html.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
   <job title="test <a href="./scheduler_data/jobs/my_job_descriptions/test1.html">docu</a>" stop_on_error="yes" order="no">
   <script language="shell"><![CDATA[
        env # "Print the environment"
   ]]></script>
</job>