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Adding an Options section to the Job

The customization of a job begins by editing the notes section of the job. To edit the Options:

  1. Right click on the job in the Job Explorer
  2. Select Edit > Notes

The notepad editor will appear. Begin and End the Options section with the following delimiters:

begin_options

! Options go here

end_options

All the following Options must be placed within the begin_options and end_options delimiters to effectively customize the job. The following line must be included in the Options section to enable a tab for custom options:

options_page_enabled = 1

The following is an example of the options that may be entered. The parts of the property page dialog that may be modified are

  1. Options icon
  2. Pages enabled
  3. Options Page Title
  4. Options Descriptions

!----- notes

This is a template for TEST_JOB

!------------------------! options controls

begin_options

! WinGui: define what icon to use with this job

options_icon=14

! WinGui: turn on/off certain of the property pages

general_page_enabled=1
access_page_enabled=1
settings_page_enabled=0
stats_page_enabled=0
notify_page_enabled=1
rescheduling_page_enabled=1
submit_page_enabled=0
parameters_page_enabled=0
connections_page_enabled=0
resources_page_enabled=0
commands_page_enabled=1
notes_page_enabled=1
options_page_enabled=1

options_title="TEST_JOB job"

options_description1="Enter above parameters to be used during "
options_description2="the batch time execution of this report."

end_optionsThe following section describes custom tabs.

See Also

Customized Property Pages

Icon Codes

Limiting Property Page tabs

Creating Custom fields

Adding custom text

Adding persistent parameters and set tags