Submitting jobs

GUI elements

The GUI has three main parts:

Submit point (selected from a table dialog box)
Metadata entry in a form
Options to copy or move a file and options to assemble jobs when multiple jobs are submitted

Listing Submit points

Submit point's icon and display name is shown on the dialog box. If no display name is available then the element name – server name – flow name is used. The Submit point can be selected from a new table dialog box by clicking the Select button.

This table dialog box has five columns: Icon - Server name- Flow - Element name - Display name.

The table behaves like the SwitchClient Table View (without filtering, because the Switch Table View does not have filters anymore as the filters are now in a separate Filter pane).

So there is a search field, the column and field ordering can be changed (except for the icon) and there is a contextual window with "Reset Ordering" and "Show Columns >" items. This allows a user to customize the way Submit points are visualized. Example: only visualize display names and order them alphabetically.

Metadata

The metadata is shown in a form. If no metadata is requested, the form is not visualized.

Keep originals in place

The user can choose to keep the original files/ folders or delete them after they have been submitted.

Submit and assemble multiple jobs

User can indicate how multiple files or folder are to be handled by using a drop-down menu.

Multiple individual files:

Submitting multiple files results in a GUI offering the dropdown menu so that the user can decide whether to:

Create one job folder including all the files and one dataset for that folder. In this case user has to provide a name for the collection.
Create a job and dataset for every individual file (every dataset contains the same metadata).

Single folder:

Submitting a single folder results in one job folder and one dataset for this folder. The dropdown menu is not displayed.

Multiple folders:

Submitting multiple folders results in a GUI offering the dropdown menu so that the user can decide whether to:

Create one job folder including all the submitted folders as subfolders in one folder and one dataset for that parent folder.
Create a job folder and dataset for every individual folder (every dataset contains the same metadata).

Note: When user clicks the Submit all button, Switch displays a warning dialog box with the message Same metadata and routing decision will be applied to all jobs. When user click OK button in this dialog box, jobs are processed. If users click Cancel button in this dialog box, they are reverted to the Submit job pane.