Job Management

Jobs can be managed if they haven’t finished. For example waiting jobs cancelled, failed jobs retried and priority of transcode jobs changed.

Roles

These are the roles that are needed:

• Can Read Jobs

Viewing jobs

1. Click on ADMIN in the top navigation.
2. Choose Jobs from the left navigation bar by pressing the icon.

There are two views of the jobs:

1. Jobs Dashboard
2. Jobs History

Click on the links above to learn more.

Viewing a job

You can view more information on a job by clicking on its title in either the dashboard or the history view.

1. Click on the title.
2. This will show the job information in a modal window in the dashboard. In the history, it will go to a page that shows the complete job information.

The job view will show the steps the job went through, the status of those stages, and a timestamp of when that information was last updated.

Aborting a job

To be able to abort a job, make sure it has not yet finished.

1. Right-click on the job you wish to abort.
2. Click on the Abort.

Restarting a job

You may wish to restart a job if there was a problem causing the

To be able to restart a job, make sure it has finished or failed.

1. Right-click on the job you wish to restart.
2. Click on the Restart.

Job prioritization

Transcode and transfer jobs can have their prioritization changed before they have started.

1. Find the transcode job to re-prioritize
2. Choose the priority - 9 being the highest, 1 the lowest.
3. As the queue is processed and any existing in-progress transcodes are completed, the prioritization will take place.

Viewing Associated Asset

You can view the associated Asset for a job.

1. Right-click on the job you wish to view.
2. Click on the View asset.