awx/awx/ui/docs/JobOutput.md

This document is meant to provide some guidance into the functionality of Job Output and its features.

Overview of the feature/screen. Summary of what it does/is

1. Elapsed time / unfollow button
2. Page up and page down buttons
3. Unique qualities of the different job types.

• Some don’t allow search by event data and thus Event is not an option in the drop down
• Some don’t have expand, collapse

4. Differences in the output from when a job is running and when a job is complete.
5. Which features are enabled when it’s running and which aren’t.

How output works generally.

1. Explain the different state components
2. Page up and page down and what’s happening in the background.

Different type of job events, and how they relate to the state object

1. Tasks
2. plays
3. events

Non-standard cases

1. When an event comes into the output that has a parent, but the parent hasn’t arrived yet.
2. When an event that has children arrives in output, but the children are not present yet

Expand collapse a single event- how it works and how it changes the state object

Expand collapse all- how it works and how it changes the state object

Search

1. During job run
2. After job run