Seeing Inputs and Outputs to a task in Job Manager Completed

Post author
Megan Shand

It would be great to be able to see a list of inputs and outputs for an individual task in Job Manger. You can see an Inputs tab and an Outputs tab for each subworkflow, but I can't find a way to see this list for individual tasks. This is a feature in Firecloud:

you just click to expand the Inputs and Outputs under any individual task under the Monitor tab.

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7 comments

  • Comment author
    Ruchi Munshi
    • Official comment

    @RobinK @Megan -- the fix for this is planned for May 1st. 

  • Comment author
    Brad Taylor

    Hi Megan,

     

    This is great feedback. Thanks for catching this. It's definitely a feature gap between Terra job manager and current FireCloud. We want to close it as soon as we can. Ideally this happens before the FireCloud redirect in May so that you don't loose capability. We're putting work into a lot of corners to get Terra up to speed (your feedback is invaluable!)

    I'm going to ask Ruchi on our Job Manager product team to comment here on when we might be able to implement this.

    Thanks!
    Brad

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  • Comment author
    Ruchi Munshi

    Hey Megan and Brad,

    Looking this over and comparing it in priority against all the other feature requests for Job Manager. Will follow up with both of you in-person and update this with information about timelines -- totally agree this is something to fix.

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  • Comment author
    RobinK

    This is definitely a very helpful feature in Firecloud that I use often. It makes debugging a failed workflow much much easier, as you can easily see what is being sent to a task.  Being able to pull up the "File Details" mini menu in firecloud for these files helps to quickly look at what is in these intermediate files and what size they are. 

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  • Comment author
    Martin Aryee

    Do you know if this made it in before the May 1 switchover, or should I revert to the Firecloud interface for now?

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  • Comment author
    Ruchi Munshi

    @RobinK, @Aryee -- there was a delay on these changes, as it got bundled with support for scattered tasks as well. Both the ability to expand scatters & see inputs/outputs is slated for May 15.

    Thanks!

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  • Comment author
    Sushma Chaluvadi

    Hi All,

    You can now see inputs and outputs per task from Job Manager. Here is a screenshot of where you can find the icons:

    Clicking on the Inputs or Outputs will bring up a window with a list of the inputs and outputs for that specific task!

     

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