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# Job Viewer terms and concepts

> Key terms and status definitions for understanding Job Viewer.

## Key terms

**Child Job**

A job that runs within the context of a parent job. Child jobs can have their own child jobs and tasks.

**Environment**

An Itential Platform deployment context (development, staging, or production) that contains isolated job and task data.

**Job**

A workflow execution instance that may contain child jobs and tasks. Jobs represent the execution of a specific workflow.

**Parent job**

A job that contains and controls child jobs or tasks beneath it in the hierarchy. Parent jobs can be either root jobs or child jobs themselves.

**Root job**

The top-level job in a hierarchy. Root jobs are not triggered by other jobs and have no parent job above them.

**Task**

An individual unit of work within a job that performs a specific function. Tasks can be Manual, Operation, or Automatic.

**Task requiring action**

A manual task that needs user intervention to proceed with execution.

**Workflow**

A defined sequence of tasks and logic that automates network operations. Workflows are executed as jobs.

## Status definitions

### Active states

* **Scheduled**: Task is queued for execution
* **Running**: Job or task is currently executing
* **Error**: Job or task encountered an error during execution
* **Paused**: Job execution has been temporarily stopped

### Finished states

* **Canceled**: Job or task was stopped before completion
* **Complete**: Job or task finished successfully

> Key terms and status definitions for understanding Job Viewer.