Show and manage holds

Available with Workflow Manager license.

In ArcGIS Workflow Manager, holds allow you to place a job on hold for an indefinite amount of time. A job may need to be placed on hold for various reasons such as insufficient funding, technical problems, missing data, lack of resources, and so on. Scheduled holds allow you to place a job on hold until a specified time or date. When active, a hold pauses a job so its steps don't run.

Show holds

Complete these steps to show job holds:

1. Access the Workflow Manager web app.
2. Choose the job for which you want to show holds on the Manage or Work page.
3. Expand the Details panel if necessary.
4. Click the Holds tab .

   Note:

   If you don’t have sufficient privileges, the Holds tab is not available.

   The job's hold information appears in the Details panel.

5. Optionally, click Options next to the hold to display the following details:
   • Step Name—The name of the held step
   • Job ID—The ID of the job that is on hold
   • Step ID—The ID of the held step
   • Created by—The user who created the hold, and the time the hold was created

Add a hold

Complete these steps to add a hold:

1. Access the Workflow Manager web app.
2. Choose the job that you want to place on hold on the Manage or Work page.
3. Expand the Details panel if necessary.
4. Click the Holds tab .

   Note:

   If you don’t have sufficient privileges, the Holds tab is not available.

   The job's hold information appears in the Details panel.

5. In the Holds section, click the Add hold to current step button .

   Note:

   If you don’t have sufficient privileges, the Add hold to current step button is not available.

   A confirmation message appears and the job is placed on hold.

Release a hold

Complete these steps to release a hold:

1. Access the Workflow Manager web app.
2. Choose the job that contains the hold you want to release on the Manage or Work page.

   Tip:

   You can also release a hold for a job that is set to run on a schedule and manually run the step before the scheduled run date.

3. Expand the Details panel if necessary.
4. Click the Holds tab .

   Note:

   If you don’t have sufficient privileges, the Holds tab is not available.

   The job's hold information appears in the Details panel.

5. In the Holds section, click Release.

   Note:

   If you don’t have sufficient privileges, Release is not available.

   The Release dialog box appears.

   Tip:

   Provide a keyword in the Search Holds text box to filter the list. To switch between active holds, released holds, and dependencies, click Active Holds or Released Holds.

6. Click Release to release the hold.

   A confirmation message appears and the hold is removed from the job.

   Note:

   Running a step automatically after releasing its hold requires the ArcGIS Workflow Manager Server Advanced role.