Jobs and joblists
Plint revolves around "things that need to be done". A thing that needs to be done is called a Job in Plint. Jobs can be completed in different ways (from just clicking "Done" to changing status after using the online editor to translate a feature film), but they all have the following in common:
- Jobs are always linked to projects.
- A collection of jobs linked to a project is called a joblist.
- The confirmation status needs to be Confirmed in order for work to begin.
- This is typically done by the assignee as a first step.
- But jobs can be set to Confirmed from the start, for example with in-house tasks.
- They can have different statuses.
- In process means that the job still needs to be done.
- Awaiting corrections means that a job has been set to Done and then reopened for additional work.
- Done = completed.
- Cancelled means, well, cancelled.
- Jobs can have parent jobs.
- Until the Parent job is Done, the child job is not open for work.
A typical joblist
A joblist in "Tree" view, showing interdependencies. The "Verify media" job cannot start until "Media upload" is Done, and so on.
