Layout of the Manager Application

Once you are logged into the manager application, there are three main elements to the application’s layout. Below the menu bar on the manager window, is the main toolbar. Most of the buttons on the main toolbar are not enabled and cannot be used until you have taken some other steps which we will get to shortly. The two buttons that are always enabled are the Connect Server button, which we will be addressing in one of the next sections. And there is the Help button which will open your default browser to the main help page for JobServer.NET.

Below the main toolbar, we see the rest of the window is split into two panels. The left-side panel is the navigation panel. The navigation panel will display our server connection(s) and hierarchical lists of jobs for each server. The right-side panel is the control area. As you perform various actions, they will open different windows in the control area. You may have multiple windows open in the control area and can switch between them as needed. In between the navigation panel and the control area, the bar can be grabbed with your pointer to resize the panels to best suit your display.