[mythtv-users] Presenting % complete for user job

[Peter Schachte]

Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Tue Sep 25, 2007 at 04:37:04PM +1000, Peter Schachte wrote:
>> I'm writing a script to be used as a user job and would like myth and mythweb to
>> be able to report percentage complete in their respective status screens, as they
>> do for transcoding and commflagging.  Is that possible? 
> 
> You need to update the jobqueue.comment field in the database.  If you give your
> User Job the %JOBID% argument, then you'll know what jobqueue.id row to update in
> the table.

Thanks, Chris, that's exactly what I was looking for.

I notice that %JOBID% option is not documented on the User Jobs wiki page.  Is
that intentional?  Any objection to me adding it to the list?

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