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 Activities Window Selection

Objects that should be displayed in the Activity Window can be selected in the dialog window "Activities window selection".

Activate the Activity Window and use the Options... command in the View menu of the UserInterfaceThis is the Automation Engine's graphical user interface. [Formerly called the "Rich Client", "RichGUI" and "Dialog Client."]. You can also open this dialog window by right-clicking the Activity Window without highlighting an objectAutomation Engine controlled activities and processes are structured in the form of objects. See also: Task. The dialog window opens automatically when a new Activity Window is called. Selections that are made for an open Activity Window are displayed immediately.

Note that objects are displayed according to the search criteria that are specified in the dialog window. You can limit the search results by using the available tabs.

You can exclude particular terms or filters using negative filters with the option NOT. Doing so is possible in all tabs (except for "Status"). Note that negative filters are ignored and no exclusion is made if the character * is used in the relevant text field.

Objects

In the Objects tab, you can specify a title for each Activity Window. It is then displayed together with "Activities". This helps you keep track of activitiesDeployment-related activities when you use numerous Activity Windows.

Here, you can select object types whose states are supposed to be displayed in the Activity Window. Simply click the check box in front of the object types. Quick and easy selection is possible by using the toolbar buttons "Select All" and "Unselect All".

You can also set a filter so that only objects are displayed whose names correspond to this filter. With the default entry * being set, all objects are listed. Use the wildcard charactersThese are placeholders for characters when you specify filters. ? stands for exactly one character, * for any number of characters. * and ? in order to set a filter. * stands for any number of characters, ? for exactly one character. You can also select the option NOT in order to have all tasks displayed that do not correspond to the specified filter.

Using the Period description field, you may search for the title of a Period object or the manually changed Period description (recurring execution) respectively. To invert this search pattern, activate the checkbox for NOT.

Status

You can select objects according to particular conditions in the Status tab. The four different states are ANY_ABEND, ANY_OK, WAITING and ACTIVE. States that are displayed in gray indicate that not all sub-categories were selected.

When you set filters, ensure that only active tasks are displayed. Note that you must deactivate objects manually when their Attributes tab includes the setting After error-free end of program or Never deactivate automatically when finished. Otherwise, they will remain in the Activity Window and can negatively affect performance and the Activity refresh cycle if many tasks are affected.

You can also filter for the remote statusThis represents the condition of a task (such as active, blocked, generating). of tasks. You can use this functionPre-defined run book template in the Automation Engine. One single step only, e.g. Start Windows Service, Copy file,… for SAP, databaseA database is an organized collection of data including relevant data structures. and RA jobs and for the SAP RemoteTaskManagerIt monitors and controls external Jobs that were not started by the Automation Engine (AE). An AE object type. [Formerly called "QueueManager."].

In SAP jobs, the SAP RemoteTaskManager and database jobs, you must define the message number of the remote status. The following values are possible:

SAP:

DB:

To filter for the remote status of RA jobs, you must specify it in the Filter for inserts field.

Host

The Host tab can be used to define that the Activity Window only displays tasks that are executed on particular hosts. You can either specify a particular hostComputer, target system. name or use a filter in order to select several hosts. The wildcard characters "*" and "?" can be used. The default value "*" has the effect that the tasks of all active hosts are displayed.

You can also select particular host types. In this case, the Activity Window only displays tasks that have been started on particular platforms.

The setting "NOT" displays the activities that do not correspond to the determined host selection.

Note that you cannot filter for agent groups because the agent groupAn agent group combines agents of the same platform. The agents that should be included in an agent group are specified by entering the agent name or via filters. A task that runs in an agent group is processed on one or all of the agent group's agents, depending on the specified mode. A particular Automation Engine object type. will already be resolved and the effective agentA program that enables the de-centralized execution of processes (such as deployments) on target systems (computers or business solutions) or a service that provides connectivity to a target system (such as for databases or middleware). An agent is also an object type in the Automation Engine. [Formerly called "Executor."] See also: host be entered in the taskAn executable object that is running. Tasks are also referred to as activities. when processing takes place.

User

You can use the User tab in order to select tasks that have been started by particular users or departments.  Two selection types are available.

Selection by filter: Sets filters that select several users or departments. You can use the wildcard characters * and ?. By default, * serves to display the tasks of all users.

Selection by userIn the Automation Engine, a user is an instance of a User object, and generally the user is a specific person who works with Automic products. The User object is assigned a user ID and then a set of access rights to various parts of the Automation Engine system and product suite. These access rights come in the form of Automation Engine authorizations and privileges, Decision user roles and EventBase rights and ARA web application object rights. You can manage all these centrally in the ECC user management functions. See also, Unified user management.: Selects a particular user from the listShows entities in a grid view to have his/her tasks displayed. For reasons of clarity, this selection type is not available in the system clientA closed environment within an Automation Engine system where you can create and run objects. A client name consists of a 4-digit number that must be indicated when a user logs on to the Automation Engine system. Users and their rights are also defined in clients. A particular Automation Engine object type. 0000 because it provides access to all clients and their users.

Select the option NOT in order to exclude a user nameName of the Automation Engine user. or filter.

Archive Keys

The Archive Keys tab can be used to limit the tasks that should be displayed in the Activity Window to those that have specific archive keys. You can either enter a particular archive key or set filters for archive keys. Use the wildcard characters * and ? for filter selection. * refers to any number of characters and ? to exactly one character. The default entry * displays all tasks.

You can also specify that both archive keys (AND relation) or only one of them (OR relation) should apply. The latter option can only be selected if there are two archive keys.

Activate the checkbox NOT in order to select only tasks that do not include particular archive keywords.

Activation

It is possible to define a time frame for selecting tasks using this tab. The following options are available:

 

See also:

Activity Window

 


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