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Which status a group shows

Grouping: a group leads with what needs a person

A pool, environment, job, experiment or page header shows the status of the child that most needs attention, and lists its children, columns and keyed counts in the same order:

  1. approval: a person is needed now
  2. failed: something broke and someone should look
  3. denied: policy stopped it; already decided, kept on record
  4. running
  5. queued
  6. off

A held request leads a denied one because the held one is work and the denied one is a record. (MasterCaution is the exception: its two lamps follow the cockpit convention, warning before caution.)

  • A pool with 16 running sandboxes and one waiting on approval shows Needs approval.
  • A group that is all queued shows Queued; a group with any running child shows Running. A group is off only when every child is off.
  • Pair the group mark with keyed counts so nothing is hidden: Waiting 1 Running 16 Queued 3. Write zero counts as 0; drop a count only when the role cannot occur in that scope.
  • A lit group mark is a pointer, not a summary. Clicking it takes the person to the child that lit it.

Part of Status, a chapter of the brand book. See also Data and Products.