McM glossary: chained requests

In this page, we give a description of icons and features of chained requests in McM

What is a chained request?

A chained request is a collection of requests which connects different steps of the production. Submission of a chained request happens within the task chain/step chain settings and gives generally an output dataset for each step of the chain.

Approval:

Not used in production. Generally is "flow".

Status:

Can be "done" if request is completed, "submitted" if request is submitted, or "new" if request is not submitted.

Last status

It reflects the last status of the requests which are chained (see status of requests for the meaning).

Chain:

In the chain, all the requests of the chain (and their order in it) is shown.

Step:

It indicates what is the currently processing request in the chain (shown with a star in the "chain", next to the request which is being processed by the system)