Comment Job Activity in Job Sequence

josh.guffey · Post by **josh.guffey** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:51 pm

Hi Everyone,

Is there a way to comment job activities within a job sequence? I have a requirement to turn jobs "off" and I know the customer will want them turned back on at some point in the future. I can of course export the files and save them or just simply remove the job activities, but I thought I would ask this question first. It would be nice if you could draw a box around n number of job activities and not have them executed at runtime.

I have searched the forum as well as the Parallel Job Developers Guide and was unable to answer this question.

Thanks in advance for reading this question.

Josh

Plagvreugd · Post by **Plagvreugd** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:13 pm

Perhaps more a workaround than a solution...

You can choose the execution action for Job Activities in a Sequence. This drop down box gives you the option to (for example) just validate the job instead of running it.

Another option is to just make the sequence more intelligent (=more complex), by adding links/triggers and using a parameter that states whether the 'extra' jobs need to be run or not. You can use this parameter in triggers to make a condition on whether the job should run.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:49 pm

I'd use annotations to alert future developers about this potential requirement. Use some stand-out colour, such as royal blue text on sky blue background or bold red text on white background.

josh.guffey · Post by **josh.guffey** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:59 am

Thanks Plagvreugd for the suggestion on modifying the execution action. I decided to go that route, as it was the quickest solution. Our group has a best practice of utilizing a UserVariable stage in which we can set/modify many parameters in our sub processes and parallel jobs and I can see how I could have incorporated that method as well. Thanks to everyone who took the time to read this post.