Creating job descriptions

This section describes the JOB DESCRIPTION panel, which lets you create job, started-task, and WTO operations using a faster path than the one available with the APPLICATION DESCRIPTION panel.

A job description is an application consisting of a job, started task, or WTO main operation that can have an internal predecessor job preparation or a manual preparation operation, or both, but no other operations. Applications with more operations are standard applications, which are described in Creating an application and its operations. The Job Description dialog automatically specifies the internal dependencies between its operations; there is no need to specify them as you would if you were creating a standard application using the APPLICATION DESCRIPTION panel.

You can change a job description with the APPLICATION DESCRIPTION panel, but if you add operations so that it is no longer eligible for the Job Description dialog, it becomes a standard application. On the other hand, if you remove operations from a standard application until it meets the criteria for a job description (and it has operations with the standard numbers 005, 010, and 015), you can change it using the Job Description dialog.