Job Details from the Job History

When you select a job from the Job History page, information about that job is displayed in the Job Detail dialog box. This dialog box allows you to view information about the selected job, which includes the information displayed in the job table as well as when the job was sent to the queue and started, the job's priority, how many times the job was restarted, and which server ran it.

Depending on the final status of the job and the options used when the job was processed, the following links may be available in the Job Detail header.

Option

Description

View Output

This link is available if a file was saved when the job was processed. The following options are available:

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If an online report is generated, click this link to view the report in the standard Odyssey Assistant report viewer. You can then print the report from the viewer.

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If a form was processed and saved, click this link to view the form in the Odyssey Assistant Word viewer. You can then print the form from the viewer.

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Use this link if text or data was saved when the job was processed. If the output was text, the Windows Save As dialog box is displayed. Use this dialog box to name and save the file so you can easily locate it.

If you want to be able to view the data in Microsoft Word or another word processor, save the file with a text extension (.txt). If you want to be able to view the data in Microsoft Excel or another spreadsheet program, save the file as a comma-separated values (.csv) file. You may have to manually type in the ".csv" extension at the end of the file name.

View Messages

Jobs can have several types of messages attached to them. An error does not have to occur when the job was processed for messages to be attached. Click this link to access the View Job Messages dialog box.

View Parameters

If the system used additional dialog boxes and other options when processing the job, this link is available. Click it to access the View Job Parameters dialog box.

Retain Job / Mark Job for Purge

Jobs are typically purged after a certain number of days. If you do not want a job to be removed from the Job History page, you can mark it so that it stays there. Use this link to mark the jobs you do not want deleted from the Job History page. When you select this option,

is then displayed beside the job name on the Job History page.

After a job has been retained, click Mark Job for Purge to manually release the job for the next appropriate purge.

Re-Queue Job

If you want to rerun a job exactly as it was the first time it was sent to the job processor, click this link to place the job back in the queue. When you select this option, Odyssey displays the name of the user that re-queued the job instead of the user who ran the original job in the User field of the new job.