Hi Jared. Welcome.
Yes, you can do what you asked.
You do this in Job sequencer job.
1) Create a new Job Parameter
JobToRun (or whatever you wish). Make it a
List type and enter the job choices (e.g. Job1, Job2, Job3, etc).
2) Put a Nested Condition stage at the beginning of the job.
3) Add Job Activity stages for each of the jobs that you wish to run (the choices on the Job Parameter list you created in step 1).
4) Draw a link from the Nested Condition stage to each of the Job Activity stages. It would be helpful to you later, if you name these links the same as the jobs that they lead to.
5) Open the Nested Condition stage properties, and click on the Triggers tab.
6) On each link, make sure that the Expression Type is "Custom - (Conditional)". Under "Expression" you should see "<LHS> = <RHS>". Replace <LHS> with the Job Parameter name that you created. Replace <RHS> with the appropriate value (from the list of values that you created for this Job Parameter in step 1).
So, let me give you an example. You have jobs
Job1,
Job2 and
Job3 that you want to choose from.
1) You create a Job Sequencer
2) Add a Nested Condition stage and three Job Activity stages.
3) You draw a link from the Nested Condition stage to each of the three Job Activity stages.
4) You set up each Job Activity stage to run one of your jobs.
5) Name the link to each Job Activity stage, the name of the job that is run from that Job Activity stage (
Job1,
Job2, or
Job3).
6) Create a new Job Parameter called
JobToRun. Set the type to
List, and double-click in the Default Value cell to open the List Dialog. In the Value field, enter
Job1 and Press the 'Add' button. Do the same for values
Job2, and
Job3, so that the List field in the middle of the dialog contains '
Job1', '
Job2', and '
Job3' (without the quotes). You can set one of these as the default, if you wish, by choosing the value you want for the default value from the Set Default drop down list. Click on the 'OK' button to close the List Dialog and save your settings.
7) Open the Nested Condition stage properties (double-click on the nested condition stage). You should see links named
Job1,
Job2, and
Job3. Make sure that the 'Expression Type' for each link is 'Custom - (Conditional)'. Note that the 'Expression' field for each link should be "<LHS> = <RHS>".
In each link replace the
<LHS> with the Job parameter name,
JobToRun.
In each link replace the
<RHS> with the link name,
"Job1",
"Job2", or
"Job3" (you need the double quotes this time).
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It should look like this when you get done:
Name Expression Type Expression
Job1 Custom - (Conditional) JobToRun = "Job1"
Job2 Custom - (Conditional) JobToRun = "Job2"
Job3 Custom - (Conditional) JobToRun = "Job3"
Click on the 'OK' button to close the dialog. Compile your job and run it. You should be able to choose which job you wish to run.
Good luck, and yell if you run into any problems.
Tony
