The obvious way to manage the job definitions on your server is to give them good and accurate names. Although over time, as you begin to create more jobs and find more ways for JobServer.NET to automate and enable various processes, it may become necessary to take advantage of another way to manage related jobs. You can use the Groups feature to organize all the jobs that have some common element. Groups appear as folders in the navigation panel view in the manager application. To create your first group, right click on the server and select New Group from the pop-up menu. Type in a name for the group and you will see it added to the list under the server.

Once you have created a group, you can now create new job definitions in that group by right-clicking on the folder icon for the group and selecting New Job from the pop-up menu. You can also drag and drop job definitions in the server list to add or remove them from the group. Additionally, now that you have at least one group defined, you will now see that you can also move a job definition you are editing by selecting or changing the group option from the list of available groups.

Group membership does not affect any of the operating conditions or parameters of the job. So, you can add, rename, or delete a group at any time without any effect to the running or pending job. If you attempt to delete a group that has existing job definitions in it, you are given the option to move the definitions out of the group before deleting it, or to delete all the definitions in it along with the group.