Grouping Tasks

The Tasks tab on the left navigation pane provides grouping functions that help you restrict the contents of the Process Monitoring to those tasks that you really need. In addition, from this pane you can start or stop agents and queues, modify the priority of the queues and set additional filters.

The options on this tab are shortcuts to some of the filters available on the right pane. This means that when you select one of the group options on this pane, the corresponding filter settings are selected dynamically on the Filter pane on the right hand side.

You can group tasks by the following criteria:

Criterion	Description
Queue	Use this option to display tasks that have been processed by specific queues. When you select Queue from Group By, the list of all available queues (both started and stopped) is displayed below on this pane. The list on the main page shows all tasks processed by all queues. You have to select one of the queues to restrict list. Activate hide stopped queues if you want to see only the queues that are started. Right-click on a queue to open a context menu providing the following functions: Setting a Filter Right-click and select Set Filter to use this entry as filter criterion Starting/Stopping a Queue Stopped queues are marked with a red square , active queues with a green triangle: . Right-click a queue and select Stop/Start Queue. Modifying the Priority of a Queue Select Modify to open the Modify Queue dialog: Here you can change the following queue parameters: Maximum Slots Maximum number of tasks that can run in parallel in this Queue. The default value is unlimited. You can enter a value between 1 and 100000. When an object starts, the Queue slot is reserved before any other object are checked, such as Sync objects, available resources, maximum number of parallel tasks allowed for a particular objects, agent, etc. Priority Objects are processed based on their priority. You can enter a value between 1 and 255, the default one being 200. The priority defined in the Queue object is checked before the priority define in the task. If two tasks have the same Queue priority, the priority specified in the task will be used.
Agent	Use this option to display tasks that have been processed by specific agents. When you select Agent from Group By, the list of all available agents (both started and stopped) is displayed below on this pane. Stopped agents are grayed out; activate hide stopped agents if you want to see only the agents that are active. The list on the main page shows all tasks processed by all agents. You have to select one of the agents to restrict list. Right-click on an agent to open a context menu providing the following functions: Setting a Filter Right-click and select Set Filter to use this entry as filter criterion Stopping Agents It is not possible to start inactive agents from this pane, you can only stop active ones. Right-click an agent and select Stop Agent.
Status	Use this option to display tasks that have a specific status. This is the same as setting the status filter on the right pane. Click on one of the main grouping status options if you want that the list of tasks displays all tasks with any of its possible sub-status. For more specific results, expand the options available for each main status and click on the one you are interested in:
Business Unit, Region	When configuring your system it is possible to define customizable attributes, such as business units and regions, that help organizing the company's processes and filter out tasks. The list of business units or regions that is displayed on the pane when selecting these options depends on the Custom Attributes defined in your system. To Filter by Business Unit/Region Activate the checkbox of the business unit/region you are interested in. You can select one or more. Optionally, activate the Select all checkbox to select all of them at a time. Activate Clear selection to remove the filter. If you have selected just one business unit/region you can specify its name. Optionally, activate the Exclude checkbox. This results in the list of tasks that do not belong to the business unit/region you have selected. Click the Filter button at the bottom of the pane. See Grouping Criteria in Executables - UC_CUSTOM_ATTRIBUTES.