There are several ways to start a job.
Before you begin
A project must have an environment and a selector defined
to run as a job.
Procedure
- From the Jobs panel: Select and click the project name. As when you click Start Project, this
method displays the Start Project page.
- From the Projects panel: Click the Fast
Start icon,
. The following conditions
are checked. If the check passes, the project starts immediately.
- The project contains one or more steps.
- No variable in the environments for the project is set to Must
Change in the On Project variable property.
If the check fails, then the Fast Start icon
is disabled:
.
Running a
project this way uses its default values for selector, class, tags,
and environment variables.
If the Enable Quickstart system setting
is set to YES, the Projects page checks all projects to determine
if they are eligible for Quick Start. If a large number of projects
are defined, the Projects page can take a long time to display the
projects list. A different icon indicates that a project can be started:
. This was the default behavior until version
7.1.1.1.
- From the Steps panel: While viewing a project's
steps, click Start Project. This
method displays the Start Project page for the project, where you
can change project parameters, environment variable values, and select
steps to exclude from the run:
- Select new values for project parameters.
- Edit the project tag variable values.
- Edit the project environment variable values. If you want your
changes saved as the new defaults for these variables, click the Save
Environment check box.
- Select the Job Steps tab to display the list of project steps.
You can select individual steps to exclude them from this run only.
After you make your choices, click Execute to
start the project.
Results
While a project is running, view the page to check the project
status.
To view job results, select to display the completed
jobs. Click the Tag Name to access options for viewing job results.