Task & Job States

Tasks are a workflow abstraction; they represent future and past jobs as well as current active jobs. In the Cylc UI, task states have monochromatic icons like this: .

Jobs are less abstract; they represent real job scripts submitted to run on a job platform, or the final status of those real jobs. In the Cylc UI, job states have coloured icons like this: .

A single task can have multiple jobs, by automatic retry or manual triggering.

State	Task Icon	Job Icon	Description
waiting			waiting on prerequisites
preparing			job being prepared for submission
submitted			job submitted
running			job running
succeeded			job succeeded
failed			job failed
submit-failed			job submission failed
expired			will not submit job (too far behind)

Note

The running task icon contains a clock face which shows the time elapsed as a proportion of the average runtime. For example this task has been running for about one third of its average runtime: