Introduction
The JOC Cockpit uses modern display techniques to allow the clear representation and simplified configuration of potentially large numbers of JobScheduler objects.
Overview
The navigation and usability features brought by the JOC Cockpit include:
- Modern navigation elements with, for example: a menu for scheduling objects.
- Graphical presentation of job chains as flow charts:
- allowing job dependencies to be clearly shown.
- Zoom in / out.
- Customized view filters: users are able to organize their daily work by filtering the objects that they can see:
- Filtering can be carried out according to:
- object type (job, order, job chain, etc.),
- file organization (i.e. folder path),
- a specific time period,
- according to the object state (waiting, late, executed).
- Filters can be customized and saved and made available locally and globally (i.e. standard shared filters).
- Filtering can be carried out according to:
- Introduction of a new Run-time Editor. to simplify changing run-times for Jobs and Orders.
The manner in which information provided in Views is presented can be provided to allow optimal usability. These are described in the next section.
A number of methods are available for presenting the information in Views: Card, List, Details and can be selected as required.
Cockpit Views
The default View shown when a user logs onto the JOC Cockpit is the Dashboard View, which provides an overview of the status of a JobScheduler Master or Master Cluster and is described in the JOC Cockpit - Dashboard View article.
Menu Bars
The menu bars ar the top of the Dashboard are standard for all Views. The top two menu bars are common to all Cockpit Views allow selection of three key Dashboard functions:
- The ID select box in the upper menu bar is used to select the JobScheduler Master or Master Cluster being shown in the dashboard.
- The main menu - with the dark grey background - is divided into two parts:
- the Views menu, to the left, which provides access to the different operational functions of the JOC Cockpit:
- Dashboard,
- Daily Plan,
- etc.
- the User menu to the right, which provides direct access to:
- User Profile settings,
- Log Files
- User Log Out
- the Views menu, to the left, which provides access to the different operational functions of the JOC Cockpit:
The menu bars are shown in the following screenshot:
The row below the main menu bar is the View header - in the screenshot the default header for the History view is shown. The content of view header menus depends on the View being shown but generally comprises a list of standard and custom filters.
Information Presentation
A number of alternative methods of information presentation are available in the different Views:
Card Presentation
List Presentation
Objects in a List View can be sorted according to the attributes listed in all the columns:
Details Presentation
This view provides a graphical representation of the job dependencies in a job chain