Job Progress Indicators

Job progress indicators has following features:

Progress Dialog - For lengthy operations, Spyder tool presents a progress dialog that has a Close, Cancel and Help button.

Close: When the dialog is closed using Close button, the operation continues to execute as a job in the background in the Station. The progress of the job can be viewed in the standard job side bar or with the visual indication in the tool bar with Job Progress toolbar icon (given below).

Cancel: When the dialog is closed using Cancel button, the current Job in progress is cancelled. For example, during validation, when the dialog is closed using Cancel button, validation operation in progress is cancelled and any errors/warnings found in the control logic until that point of time are reported.

Help: Click on this button to view Help on the progress dialog.

Job Progress toolbar icon - This toolbar icon appears for all the Spyder views of device and ControlProgram. This indicates if any operations are running at any given point of time. The Job Progress indicator turns to red, if any of the operations are in progress. Else it turns to green, when no operations (that run as jobs) are in progress. The tool tip indicates the current operation name that is in progress.