The Oddjob User Guide

Version: 1.5.0

Author: Rob Gordon

Contents

• First Clicks
  • Starting Oddjob
  • Loading The Examples
  • Job State
  • Resetting and Rerunning A Job
• Oddjob Explorer
  • The Panels
  • The File Menu
  • The Edit Menu
  • The Job Menu
• The Examples
  • Hello World
  • Execute a Batch File
  • Conditional Paths
  • A Scheduler Example
  • Sharing Jobs on A Network
• Your First Oddjob File
  • Creating a Configuration File
  • Adding a Job
  • Running Your Job
• Children of Oddjob
  • Job Hierarchies
  • A Sequential Example
  • Nesting Oddjob
• Runtime Configuration
  • Introduction
  • Defining Properties
  • Job Identity
  • Job Properties
  • Variables
  • Oddjobs Within Oddjobs
• Behind the GUI
  • The Basics
  • Jobs that Run Jobs
  • Property Elements
  • Runtime Property Elements
  • Advanced Property Access
  • Properties of Oddjob within Oddjobs
• Scheduling In Oddjob
  • Introduction
  • The Timer Job
  • Retries
  • Holidays
  • Time Zone Scheduling And Daylight Saving Time
  • The Trigger Schedule Instruction
  • Scheduling with Dependencies
• Oddjob Schedules
  • Introduction
  • Recurring Intervals
  • Constraining Schedules
  • Refining Schedules
  • Fixed Intervals
  • Schedule Lists
  • Holiday Schedules
• State and Flow
  • Overview
  • If and Trigger
  • Wait and Join
  • State Conditions
• Distributing Work
  • Introduction
  • A Simple Example
  • Distributed Scheduling
• Sharing Jobs on a Network
  • Introduction
  • Working With Remote Jobs
  • Server Drag And Drop
  • Connecting Multiple Servers
  • The Server Side
• Tasks
  • Overview
  • Limitations
• Saving Oddjob
  • Introduction
  • The Persister Property
  • Persistence and Identity
  • Removing Persisted State
  • Archiving
• Beyond the GUI
  • The Command Line
  • Stopping Oddjob
  • In the Linux background
  • As a Windows Service
  • When Things Go Wrong
• Oddjob's Browser Interface
  • Installing
  • Configuring
  • Limitiations