Jobs and notifications

Follow the work Halo runs in the background, retry or cancel a job, and choose which notifications also email you.

Long work, such as discovery or an export, runs in the background as a job. You can leave the page while it runs, and Halo tells you when it's done.

See your jobs

The Jobs button in the top bar shows Your jobs while they run, with progress. The Jobs page in the sidebar lists them in full.

On the page, filter by All, Running, Failed or Succeeded. If your role has See everyone's jobs, you see the organization's jobs, and Only mine narrows the list to yours. Otherwise you see your own.

Kinds of job

• Discovery of a connection

• File uploads: reading a file, then importing it

• Extract refreshes

• Data exports

• PDFs of reports

• Scheduled email of reports

• Scheduled publishes, which wait in the list until their time

• Snapshots behind public links and embeds

• Image processing

• Templates: saving one, and creating a report from one

• Duplicating and importing reports

• Generating or rebuilding a report with Halo, and Halo AI's descriptions and insights

• Loading a dbt project

• Writing a summary for a scheduled email

• Publishing a website, and making a preview of one to share

• Reading a directory source, and refreshing the directory's tables in Halo Data

Open a job

Press a job to see it in full.

• Its progress, while it runs.

• Details: when it was queued, started and finished, how long it took, and which attempt this is.

• Log: what the job did, step by step.

• What it made, such as an export, with when the file expires. An expired file says to export again.

• A link to what it worked on, such as Open the connection, Open the dataset or Open the report.

If Halo restarts while a job is running, the job gets a little time to finish, then goes back in line and starts again from the beginning. That doesn't count as a failed attempt, and nobody's told it failed. Until it restarts, it says "Interrupted by a restart. It will start again."

Cancel or retry a job

• Cancel job asks a queued or running job to stop. It says "Canceling…" until the job reaches a point where it can stop.

• Retry job runs a failed or canceled job again. Use it once you've fixed what the error says, such as a connection's password.

Both are also in a job's right-click menu, along with Copy the error for a failed job.

Notifications

The bell in the top bar is the notification center. Everything Halo tells you appears there, and a dot on the bell means something's unread. Press a notification to go to what it's about. Mark all read clears them.

Long jobs that finish or fail tell you here, as do requests to publish, editions that don't build, changes that break a dataset of yours, data alerts, replies from Halo, website news such as a form response or a domain going live, what's new in your directory's Inbox, and plan limits if you're an Owner or an Admin.

Choose what emails you

Every notification appears in the notification center. In Account, under Notifications, choose which ones also email you. Your choices apply in every organization you belong to.

Each switch says when it's been changed from its default. Halo emails important announcements itself, whatever your choice here. Some emails aren't optional: sign-in codes, password resets, invitations, and security warnings such as a two-factor lockout.

Scheduled report emails have their own recipients. See Scheduled email.