View Job Files

View job files from summary tab, input tab, output tab or running folders tab.

Depending on the state of the job, the job files that you are viewing may be stored on the remote PAS server.

While a job is running results files are maintained on the remote PAS server. These files can be displayed by viewing the contents of the Running Folder. Once the job completes, the job results files are written to the Output folder in Job Summary.

You may visualize your running job files and completed job output files for a plot. You may visualize the animation result files using the result viewer.

  1. Click the Jobs tab located in the upper left-hand of the page.
    The job monitoring page is displayed with the list of the jobs that is submitted to a cluster.
  2. Perform one of the following options:
    • Click the job name from the list.
    • Select the job name from the list and click the View Details from the context menu.
    Tip: Click Last Submitted job link to view the properties of the last submitted job that is submitted.
    The job summary page is displayed.

    Job Summary Tab
    Figure 1. Job Summary Tab

    From the files list you can select a file to view its content in the Text, Plot or Image viewers. You can monitor the progress of the job by viewing the updated contents of the selected file. You can visualize plots and animations from result files for both running and completed jobs.

    If the selected file of the job is in running state, then the file will be displayed with the tailing options like Play, Pause, and Stop.

    Job Summary File in Tailing Mode
    Figure 2. Job Summary File in Tailing Mode
    Note: Based on the job status, the job tab is enabled. If the job selected is completed, then the Output tab is enabled. If the job selected is in running state, then the Running Folder tab is enabled.
  3. Choose one of the following options:
    • Click Running Folder tab if you want to view the files of a running job.
    • Click Output tab to view the result files of a completed job.
  4. Choose one of the following options:
    • If you want to open the file in the default application, double-click the file.
    • If you want to open the file in the default application, right-click the file and select Open in the context menu.
    • If you want to choose an application and to set a default application to open the file, right-click the file and select Open With.
    Tip: To set a default application to open a file based on the file extension, then select Always Use this check-box.
    The file will be opened in the application:

    Opened File
    Figure 3. Opened File
    You can perform some of the file operations.
    Note: The editing and tailing is only available for certain kinds of files.