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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).
  • 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 and allow selection of four key Dashboard functions:

  • The ID select box in the upper menu bar is used to select the JobScheduler Master or Master Cluster to be shown in the dashboard.
  • The main menu - with the dark gray background - which 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 back button, which is the orange/white arrow positioned below the main menu bar and at the left. This button mimics the browser back button and, for example, cannot be used to undo configuration changes made within a view.

The menu bars are shown in the following screenshot:

View Header Menus

The two rows below the main menu bar in the screenshot above make up the View header menu - in the screenshot the default header for the Daily Plan view is shown. The exact content of View header menus depends on the View being shown.

The Daily Plan Menu shown above is typical and comprises:

  • First row (from left to right):
    • A number of quick configuration buttons to allow the objects being shown in the view (in the daily plan, the jobs and orders) to be selected according to, for example, those planned for the next 24 hours or those running late.
    • A Sort by select box.
    • A Customization select box, which allows users to configure their own filter and selection criteria for the information to be shown in the view. < LINK TO DETAILED DESCRIPTION MISSING
    • An Export button that allows the contents of the List Presentation (described below) to be exported to Excel (xslx) format.
    • Two or more buttons that allow the presentation form used in the view to be changed. These buttons are described below.
  • Second row:
    • In the Daily Plan view this row contains from and to date and time filter parameter settings. These can be used to reduce the amount of objects shown in the view. Other views - but not all - contain similar filters in this row.

Information Presentation

A number of alternative methods of information presentation are available for some Views. These are illustrated in the following screenshots

Card Presentation

This presentation is intended to provide the clearest representation of objects with basic functions:

List Presentation

The List View provides the most detailed object information and functions as well as the most extensive filtering and sorting options: all objects can be sorted according to the attributes listed in all columns.

Details Presentation

This view provides a detailed graphical representation of the job dependencies in a job chain.

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