Tasks Tab

You can easily search among all tasks on the portal by selecting this tab. There are two sections in this panel. The top one deals with various search criteria while the bottom one shows search results.

Each search criteria affects what is indicated by the label associated with the text field. As an example you have the label “Task ID:” which searches the field for task IDs to find matching tasks to display. You can enter an asterisk (“*”) on its own in a filed to designate an “all” search for that particular field. Do not enter an asterisk when you have entered characters as the asterisk is treated as a character meaning that you designate a task with an asterisk in its name. All searches are treated with the letters as wild-cards. An example is if you intend to search for tasks containing the word “bear” simply enter “bear” in the text field. Now, if there are tasks with the names “bear”, “polar bear”and “unbearable” all of these will match as they contain the word “bear” somewhere. If you enter characters in more than one text field, they will be treated with a logical and between each field when searching. In the figure below you see the search panel in its whole. At the top marked with a red ellipse you have the search fields. At the bottom indicated with a blue ellipse you have the results table and buttons. To search for a range of WCUs, assume the WCUs MM-810:1 – MM-823:1, you enter the query 810-823 and all those WCUs will show. This might not always be what you want and therefore you can use the letter '?' to mean any character. Entering two '??' in a row then means that you would like to match any two characters in a row. You can enter a '?' where ever toy would like to match any character.

The Search Fields Section

Above most columns of the table there is a field that can be used to enter search criteria to find assignments. Most of the fields are straight forward in where they apply. However some of them needs some more explaining. Fields where you need to supply a date can be done in two ways. By clicking on the small calendar picture to the right of the field brings up calendar where you can select a date. When selecting a date this way, the time portion is always set to 12:00:00. Edit this afterwards to fit your needs. You can also enter a date by in the filed and the accepted form is: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss. The “Assignment status” field is made up of check boxes. If you leave all unchecked, it is implied that you do not care which status the assignment is in and therefore all statuses are included in the search. As soon as you check one or more of these a logical or is applied to the selection of statuses. The “Last update from” and to option relates to when the assignment changed its status, i.e. any of the status from the check boxes. There is an option to filter by the type of assignment using the check boxes to the right of “Assignment type:”. In the “Current hit count” you can see how many hits you will receive if you decide to get the search results. This is a good indicator to see if you should narrow your search criteria. To sort the table you click the column header either by clicking the arrow to the right of each header to select ordering, each click on the header somewhere else will toggle ascending/descending sorting or you can right click on the header to call up the header menu where you can select sorting order or which columns you would like to see.

The Results Section

Illustration 14: The search panel for finding tasks.

Illustration 15: Coloring of assignments that are in state "Error" or "Running".

The results are fetched continuously as you enter text in the fields, thus you do not need to click the “Get Search Results” button. In order to view a result you simply select the assignment in the table that you are interested in. Depending on the assignment different buttons will be enabled. If there are results available the “Get Result Files” button will be enabled. Multiple rows in the table can be selected by holding down the shift key in order to select a range of rows or by holding down the ctrl-key to select individual rows.

If you right-click an entry you will be presented with a pop-up with a range of possibilities. Firstly, all the functionality of the buttons above the search result table is there along with a few more that are related to getting information. There is also some context awareness of this pop-up. An example of that is if you right-click in the WCU column, the option of showing the WCU information will be visible. If you instead right-click “Car” column, showing the cars information is visible. The reason for this is to keep the number of options to a minimum in order not to clobber your view. The “Task ID” column has an extra entry saying “Get result files” that brings up a dialog to download result files for a task. An explanation of this functionality can be found at the end of Active Tasks Tab#General Tab Layout