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Workflow General information

This page should describe all “basic workflow information around workflows, e.g. branching behaviour etc…

File Flow

Workflow Properties

All these properties are accessible by right-clicking on a workflow in workflow manager.

General Tab
Description	Description of your workflow. Has no implication on functionality but it will be displayed in the upper editor area if description is enabled there.
Work folder	This info tells you where the work folder for the workflows jobs reside. This is set automatically from the “Work cache” options in the main configuration and cannot be changed by the user.
Workflow ID	Shows the ID of the workflow. This is automatically generated and cannot be changed by the user.
Sleep timer	Here you set the loop for how many seconds FFAStrans should wait for the workflows monitors to start looking for new files. In workflows without monitors this setting as no effect.
Priority	This sets the workflow priority. This is NOT a CPU priority but rather job run order priority. The higher priority jobs will be processed before lower priority jobs. However, already started lower priority jobs will not stop or pause if higher priority jobs is queued. Note: Jobs manually submitted from the GUI will always have the highest priority. Jobs submittet through the API will use the default workflow priority unless specified different in the job post.
Timeout level	Defines how quick FFAStrans will abort jobs that seem to have stopped for various reasons. Usually due to encoding/decoding hangups. The lower the number the faster FFAStrans will abort. When working with very large files you might need to set this higher.
Active on	Here you can set on what week day on which the workflows monitors will be active.Note: Regardeless of this setting and the workflow state, one can always submit jobs either manually from the GUI or through the API.

Maintenance Tab
Keep all job work folders on completion	Enabling this option will prevent FFAStrans from deleting all the files and work folders it creates for jobs.Note: You should avoid enabeling this as the it may fill up your storage. Use only for debugging.
Keep only failed job work folders	Enabling this option will prevent FFAStrans from deleting the work folders for failed jobs.Note: In this regard, a job is considered failed only if the last executing branch has failed outcome.
Cleanup time	Here you can set the time of day on which FFAStrans will perform cleanup of cachefile. This option may disappear in future versions.
Validate records after <n> days	This option tells FFAStrans how many days it should “remember” what files it has processed. If a file has been registered longer than the number of days specified, AND the original file is gone, the file record will be removed. If the file comes back after removal, FFAStrans will see it as a new file.
Keep work files for <n> days	This option tells FFAStrans how many days it should keep the work folders for each job.