Oddjob Explorer

Your window on the Oddjob world. Before moving on let's have a quick walk through the Oddjob Explorer views and controls.

Job Tree Panel: Displays the hierarchy of jobs.
Detail View: Displays detail on a job selected in the tree view. It consists of three panels:
State Panel: Displays the current state of a job, where available. The time is the time the job changed to that state and the exception is the full stack trace of the cause of the job being in an exception state.
Console Panel: Displays messages written to the console of the job being run. The console is shared at a process level so in any one jobs console view you will see messages from all jobs in the same process.
Log Panel: Displays log messages produced by the job, where available. Log messages are of different levels, DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR and FATAL. Each level message is displayed in a different colour.
Properties Panel: Displays the properties of a job. Some of these properties are visible before a job is run because they are constant or default values, some will only be available when the job has run.

New: Creates a new Oddbjob.
Open: Starts Oddjob with the selected configuration file.
Close: Closes the current view and destroys the internal Oddjob. Both Open and Exit perform these actions so Close won't be used much. Note: you can not close the current view until all local running jobs have completed or have been stopped. If a job won't stop then you must kill the Oddjob Explorer process. This strategy ensures that no processes are left running that a user is unaware of.
Save: Saves the Oddjob configuration of the currently selected jobs Oddjob, or the root Oddjob if no job is selected.
Save As: Saves the root Oddjob configuration in a different file.
Recent History: Displays recent file history. Recent file history is stored in the directory used to launch Oddjob. When you change this directory you loose this history. Launching two Oddjob Explorers will confuse history and only that of the last closed will be persisted.
Exit: Performs Close and exits Oddjob Explorer. The same as closing the main window.

Cut: Delete the current job after copying its configuration to the clip-board.
Copy: Copy the current job's configuration to the clip-board.
Paste: Paste configuration from the clip-board to create a child job of the current job.
Delete: Delete the current job.

The Job menu applies to the job currently selected in the tree view.

Run: Runs a job.
Soft Reset: Performs a soft reset on the job.
Hard Reset: Performs a hard reset on the job.
Stop: Stops the job.
Set Property: Sets a property of a job. As an example to change the name of the job enter 'name' in the name field and select value from the drop down. Enter 'Fred' in the text box. Hit OK twice and the jobs name will have changed to Fred.
Oddjob Designer: Launches Oddjob Designer which allows the configuration of the currently selected job to be changed. A nested Oddjob instance is only configurable once it has been run.

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