The primary tool for monitoring tasks is the Task List dialog box. You can also use notifications to inform users of the success or failure of tasks.
The Task List dialog box, which you display from the Tasks feature in the Administration tool, lets you identify tasks that are pending, monitor tasks that are running, and view information about completed tasks. You can also initiate tasks from this dialog box.
- The Pending tasks list shows the task queue, including tasks that are currently running and tasks that are scheduled or waiting to run. You can suspend and resume pending tasks, or cancel them completely.
If you select a pending task or a task that is executing and click Details, you can see the task progress, who initiated the task, and the files on which the task is being executed.
- The Completed tasks list shows the status of completed tasks. If a task fails, you can view its details to see an error message and error code. These codes are also reported in error logs that are created for failed tasks.
Task List Options let you specify the number of task records to retain in the Completed Tasks list.
You can set up notification messages to be sent to users and task initiators when a task succeeds or fails.
- If a conversion task succeeds, the notification contains links to the converted files, so that you open a file in the Enterprise PDM File viewer, view the file's properties, and see the file's history.
- If a task fails, the notification contains a link to the error log.