Jobs are the result of running a script. Jobs are retained based on the script and server level settings.

Viewing Jobs

Jobs can be viewed by clicking the Automation / Jobs page. Click the View button to navigate to the job. Jobs in progress can also bee cancelled.

View Job Output

Standard job output is shown on the Output Tab of the job page. This should contain text from various PowerShell streams.

View Job Pipeline Output

Pipeline output for jobs are also stored within UA. Any object that is written to the pipeline is stored as CliXml and available for view within the Pipeline Output tab.

You can expand the tree view to see the objects and properties from the pipeline.

Viewing Errors

Any errors written to the error stream will be available on the Error tab within the job page.

Feedback

Some jobs will require feedback. Any script that contains a Read-Host call will wait until there is user interaction with that job. The job will be in a Waiting for Feedback state and you can respond to that feedback by click the Response to Feedback button on the job page.

Parameters

Jobs support automatically generating forms with parameters based on your script's param block. The type of control will change based on the type you define in the block. Parameters that are mandatory will also be required by the UI.

Basic Parameters

Parameters can be simply defined without any type of parameter attribute and they will show up as text boxes in the UI.

param($Test)
​
$Test

Type Parameters

UA supports various types of parameters. You can use String, Int, DateTime, Boolean, Switch and Enum types.

param(
    [String]$Textbox,
    [Int]$NumberPicker,
    [DateTime]$DateTime,
    [Bool]$Switch,
    [Switch]$Switch2,
    [System.DayOfWeek]$Select
)
​
$Textbox
$NumberPicker
$DateTime
$Switch
$Switch2
$Select

Required Parameters

You can use the Parameter attribute to define required parameters.

param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory)]
    $RequiredParameter
)
​
$RequiredParameter

Invoking Jobs from the Command Line

You can use Invoke-UAJob to invoke jobs from the command line. You will need a valid App Token to do so. Parameters are defined using dynamic parameters on the Invoke-UAJob cmdlet.

Invoke-UAJob -Script 'Script1.ps1' -RequiredParameter 'Hello'

Call Scripts from Scripts

You can also call UA scripts from UA scripts. When running a job in UA, you don't need to define an app token or the computer name manually. These will be defined for you. You can just call Invoke-UAScript within your script to start another script. Both jobs will be shown in the UI. If you want to wait for the script to finish, use Wait-UAJob.