Managing workflows and jobs

You can manage your workflows and jobs by changing their current activity.

See Automation app: Overview for more information about workflows and jobs.

Managing workflows

On the Workflows page, you can change the current activity of a workflow to achieve your goals; for example, you might need to edit a workflow that is active and is currently launching new jobs.

To manage your workflow, click the overflow menu to the right of the workflow name and click the item described in the "User Action" column below.

Note: The actions that are available for a given workflow vary depending on your ownership and the current workflow status.

User Clicks . . .	Resulting Change to Workflow Behavior	New Status (in Status Column)
`Activate`	The workflow begins launching jobs. Note: If you have a workflow with a manual trigger, you must next select Run now from the overflow menu to start launching jobs.	`Active`
`Deactivate`	Pauses an active workflow. Currently running jobs can complete, although you have the option to cancel them. All future jobs are canceled.	`Inactive`
`Delete`	Cancels all currently running jobs and all future jobs.	Removed from page
`Edit`	Cancels all currently running jobs and all future jobs.	`Draft`
`Email notifications`	Configure notifications for specific individuals or groups that need to know when a workflow has started, completed, or failed.	No change
`Job queue`	Jump to the job queue for the workflow.	No change
`Rename`	No change to current or future activity.	No change
`Run now`	Start a job for this workflow.	`Running`
`Share`	Share a workflow you own with another individual user, granting Manage jobs permission, which allows your recipient to view your workflow and to start, cancel, and delete job in it.	No change

Managing jobs

Manage your jobs on the Job Queue page. Check the box to the left of the job and click the action described in the first column below:

User Clicks . . .	Resulting Change to Job Behavior	New Status (in Status Column)
`Cancel running jobs`	You can cancel jobs in `Running now` or `Queued` status. For an in-progress (blue dot on step indicates in-progress) transfer step, Automation sends an asynchronous cancel request to the node, then reports the job as cancelled. Automation does not track the node response; if the node fails to cancel the transfer, the transfer continues even though you cancelled the job. All queued jobs are automatically cancelled.	`Cancelled`
`Delete jobs`	Deletes the job from the list of jobs on the page.	Removed from page

To see the status for each step of an existing job, click a job in the list. Steps are marked green for success, blue for in progress, and red for failed.