What is a job type?

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Job types provide a way to categorize your work and processes. Although all jobs differ in some ways, there are usually commonalities that can be extracted and standardized. Job types allow you to group similar types of work together. In doing this, you provide templates for each unit of work you manage, making the creation and execution of that work more efficient.

By defining properties and components that are consistent throughout all jobs of a specific type, you will reduce preparation time significantly. WMX also opens up the possibility for easily querying metrics, as job comparison is much simpler for tasks that started out exactly the same.

In standardizing the way work is done, your users will become more efficient at their tasks. Once all jobs are streamlined into a few discrete types, it may also be possible to extract components or tasks that can be automated.

Basic job type properties

All job types have basic descriptive information. Some of these properties are exposed to the end user in the client application. You can use some of these properties to better organize your job types.

Job Type Profile
Basic properties of all job types.
Job Type Properties
Change the name of the Extended Properties tab names through the job type.

9/23/2010