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    Configuring a Job
    • 20 Mar 2024
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    Configuring a Job

    • Updated on 20 Mar 2024
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    Overview

    Jobs provide your data testing and profiling efforts the opportunity to tell a more complete story of what's happening in your environment. By executing tests and profiles together, your test coverage increases which improve the measure of your data quality.

    The Job Configuration page provides an interface for choosing the objects to be included in a job, when to run the job, and defining email notifications to send upon job completion.

    Job Steps

    The Steps section of the Job Configuration page consists of a list of available tests and jobs on the left-hand portion of the screen and a list of selected job steps on the right-hand portion of the screen tagged as Job Steps.

    There are four types of objects that can be added to a job:

    1. Standard Tests
    2. Template Tests
    3. Jobs
    4. Profile Sets

    Available objects can be found using the Tests (By Folders) dropdown or by toggling to the search view using the search icon to the left of the dropdown.

    Job Step Buttons



    Arrow buttons (highlighted in the above image)Allow a user to :
    • Add an object to a job
    • Remove an object from a job
    • Move an object to the top of the list
    • Move an object up on the list
    • Move an object down the list
    • Move an object to the bottom of the list
      Note: Adding the same object to the Job Step list produces a warning icon about the duplicate job step.
    Select AllSelects all items on the job steps list.
    Deselect AllDeselects all items on the job steps list.
    Disable Job StepDisables the selected job step from executing when running the job.
    Group / Ungroup Job StepsGroup job steps together to run them in parallel. Ungroup job steps to run them sequentially. Grouped steps share the same step number.
    Ctrl + click on multiple tests within Job Steps and then click on the Group button to create a group of tests.
    Job Configuration Note

    Clicking the database icon in Job Steps allows the user to choose source and target connections that differ from the default for standard tests. If a different connection is chosen, the database icon will turn blue. Similarly for runtime configuration of Template Tests, clicking the materialize icon allows the user to enable child test materialization before running the job. If this option is enabled, the materialize icon will turn blue.


    Schedules

    Each job can be assigned one more schedules designed to run the job automatically. Check out Scheduling a Job to learn more about creating a schedule.

    Metadata & Discussion

    Similar to tests and metadata objects, jobs are associated with custom fields and have a section for users to leave comments. Have a user with Edit Metadata permission update the custom fields for Jobs.

    History

    View the execution history of each job to see the results over time. You can also see when users create, modify, or copy the job using Event History.


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