Controlling Downloading Jobs

The Downloading Jobs tab gives you a way to monitor and control downloading jobs. The tab contains a list of jobs and a set of controls that let you add, start, stop, change priority, delete jobs, or view their details (job-related events).

The Jobs List

The list displays the following information about each job:

• Job Id - a unique textual job Id that is automatically generated and assigned to a job. All temporary files of this job can be found in <base directory>\<job id>\.
  
  
• Job state - is indicated by an icon. A green circle indicates a ready to run job in a stand-by mode. A green triangle (arrow) indicates a running job. A red circle icon means a paused job. A green check mark indicates a job that has been finished without any problems. A red cross means that the job has finished with problems.
  
  
• Job rank - is 0 for high priority jobs and 1 for other jobs. High priority jobs get resources first.
  
  
• Total KB - approximate amount of traffic the job has to download the get all the files.
  
  
• Done % - approximate stage of completion of the job.
  
  
• Subject comment and/or current file - subject comment text and/or file name of the last article that the job has started downloading. Note that a job can be downloading several articles in parallel. This column displays details of the latest of them.

The Jobs Control Buttons

These are located to the right of the jobs list and let you control the jobs. To do anything with a job, first select it by clicking on its Id and then use the button that does the wanted action.

• Add New - when clicked does nothing except explaining how to add a new account. To add a new account, you have to complete Account Details Form at the lower part of the dialog and click on the Add New button on the form.
  
  
• Start - starts the selected job. Actually, this only changes the job state to "running". A job is doing something only when resources are available and assigned to it. Resources are assigned to jobs in progress when they become available.
  
  
• Pause - stops the job and changes the job state to "paused".
  
  
• Remove - removes the job completely. Its working directory is also removed.
  
  
• Clear Finished - removes from the list all finished jobs.
  
  
• Up in Que - moves the job up in the list. Changes its rank if necessary. The higher the job is, the sooner it gets resources.
  
  
• Down in Que - moves the job down in the list. Changes its rank if necessary.
  
  
• Show Progress - if the job is running and there is no progress dialog, this opens a progress dialog for the job.
  

The Events List

This list shows events associated with the currently selected job. If the job had any problems, the events will be shown in the list. Event time and a brief description are shown for each event. You can see more detailed description by clicking on the Details button to the right of the list, or you can clear all events by clicking on the Clear All button.

The Help button displays this page.