In the Monitor workspace, the Approve feature is used with dynamic and static jobs. In dynamic and static jobs, you can insert a step called Manual Check which will halt the job execution until you manually approve and confirm that the job can continue to the next step. When the job reaches the Manual Check step, it will remain in the Waiting For Approval status and the Approve option will be enabled on the ribbon. As you approve the rows in the left bottom pane, the job will resume processing the rest of the steps.
To add a Manual Check step to a job, your user account must be part of a business group in User Administration that has the appropriate permissions.
To approve steps in dynamic and static jobs:
- In Automation Desk, in the left navigation pane, click Monitor >Jobs/Events.
You see the Monitor workspace. - Click the double arrow to the right of the workspace to open the Search dialog box. To view all processes (completed and waiting), click to select Scheduled Start Date Time. Select the date and time and select Job as Event type and Dynamic, Static as the Job Type. Click the green Search button.
- Click the job whose Event Status is Waiting For Approval.
In this example, the job has 3 steps, with the Manual Check as the second step. In the bottom left pane, in the List tab, you see that the first step, Entity Build, has completed successfully. - In the bottom left pane, click the Job Status tab and scroll down until you see the first Manual Pending Approval row. For each row that you wish to approve, click the Manual Pending Approval row and click Approve on the ribbon.
- Click Yes to approve the manual workflow.
- Click OK to continue.
- Click the Refresh drop down and select Screen to refresh the data displayed in the bottom left pane.
You see that the status of the Manual Pending Approval row that you have approved is changed to Completed and the last step of the job (OLAP Reports) was able to complete.
In this example, once you have approved the Manual Check for the entity with Effective Date 2/18/11, the OLAP Reports step ran and completed successfully.
- To export the data displayed in the workspace, click the Distribution drop down, click Export and select the file format.