Scheduled Jobs
User Guide — Watching the Jobs OnCoor Runs for You
| Last updated: September 2026
Contents
- Overview
- Key Concept: A Job vs a Scheduled Job
- Finding Your Way Around
- Reading the List
- Checking the Values a Job Ran With
- Where Scheduled Jobs Come From
- Following a Job's Progress
- Quick Reference
1. Overview
Behind the scenes, OnCoor gets a lot of work done by running jobs — the tasks that move, process, and refresh your data. The Scheduled Jobs list is your window onto that work. It's a running record of every job that has been started: what it was, when it began and finished, whether it succeeded, and the exact values it ran with.
This is a read-only screen. You don't build or change anything here — you come here to see what has run, what's running now, and what went wrong if something failed.
What you can do here
- See every job that has been started, newest first.
- Check the status of each one — waiting, running, finished, or failed.
- See when a job started and finished.
- Read the error message when a job didn't complete.
- Look up the parameters a job was given when it ran.
WHERE TO FIND IT — The list lives under Process Management → Scheduled Job. It opens straight onto the list of jobs, with the most recent at the top.
2. Key Concept: A Job vs a Scheduled Job
Two words sound alike here, so it's worth separating them:
- A Job is a definition — a task set up once in the Scheduler, with a name, a type, a queue, and any parameters it needs. It sits there ready to be used.
- A Scheduled Job is one run of that job — what you get each time a job is actually started. It has a start time, an end time, a status, and an outcome.
So one Job can appear in this list many times: once for every time it has been run. This screen is the list of those runs.
Rule of thumb: you set up a Job once in the Scheduler; a new Scheduled Job appears here each time that Job is started.
3. Finding Your Way Around
Go to Process Management → Scheduled Job. The whole screen is a single list, sorted so the most recently started run is at the top. Each row is one run of a job.
The list shows what happened but doesn't refresh on its own — reopen or reload the screen to pick up the latest status of a job that's still running.
4. Reading the List
Each row describes one run. Reading left to right:
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Action | Opens the parameters for this run — see section 5. |
| Job Record Name | The short record name of the job that ran. |
| Job Name | The full, friendly name of the job. |
| Assigned Queue Name | The queue the job was placed on to run. Queues let OnCoor line jobs up and run them in order. |
| Is Synchronous | Ticked if OnCoor waited for the job to finish before moving on; unticked if the job was sent to the queue to run in the background. |
| Initiator Type | How the run was started — for example, started by hand by a person, or kicked off automatically. |
| Status | Where the run is up to — waiting, running, finished, or failed. |
| Start Time | When the run began. |
| End Time | When the run finished. Blank while a job is still running. |
| Error | The message OnCoor recorded if the run failed. Blank when everything went fine. |
START WITH STATUS AND ERROR — When you're checking on a job, the two columns that matter most are Status (did it work?) and Error (if not, why?). A filled-in Error with no End Time usually means the run stopped partway through.
5. Checking the Values a Job Ran With
Many jobs take parameters — the specific values that tell a job exactly what to do on a given run (for example, a date to process up to). To see the values a particular run used, open its parameters.
Steps
- Find the run you want in the list.
- In the Action column, click the Parameters icon.
- The Param Details window opens, showing the job's name and a simple two-column table:
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Param Name | The name of the parameter. |
| Value | The value that parameter was set to for this run. |
- Click Close when you're done.
WHY THIS IS USEFUL — If two runs of the same job behaved differently, their parameters are the first place to look. The Param Details window shows precisely what each run was told to do.
6. Where Scheduled Jobs Come From
Nothing is created on this screen — entries appear here when a job is started somewhere else. The most common path is:
- A Job is defined once in the Scheduler, on its Job tab (with its type, queue, and parameters).
- On that same Job tab, someone uses the Start action on a job, which opens the Job Initialization window.
- They fill in any parameters the job asks for and click Initiate.
- OnCoor places the run on its queue — and it appears in the Scheduled Jobs list, where you can follow it from here.
So think of the Scheduler as the place you set up and launch jobs, and the Scheduled Jobs list as the place you watch them run.
7. Following a Job's Progress
A run moves through a simple life of its own, and the list reflects it:
- Just started — the run appears at the top with a start time and a status showing it's waiting or running; End Time is blank.
- Finished — the status shows it completed and End Time is filled in.
- Failed — the status shows it didn't finish, and the Error column explains what went wrong.
Because the list doesn't update by itself, reload the screen to see the current state of a job that's still going. A quick way to sanity-check the whole system is to glance down the Status column: a healthy run of work is mostly completed jobs, with any failures easy to spot by their Error text.
8. Quick Reference
A fast lookup for the most common actions.
| I want to… | Do this |
|---|---|
| See what jobs have run | Process Management → Scheduled Job |
| Find the most recent run | Look at the top of the list (newest first) |
| Check whether a job succeeded | Read its Status column |
| Find out why a job failed | Read its Error column |
| See what values a run used | Click the Parameters icon → Param Details |
| See if OnCoor waited for a job | Check the Is Synchronous column |
| See how a run was started | Check the Initiator Type column |
| Start a new job run | Go to the Scheduler → Job tab → Start → Initiate |
| Refresh the list | Reload the screen — it doesn't update on its own |
Source: OnCoor Process Management product documentation, written for end users. For the latest screens and options, always refer to the in-app interface.