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Adding data to a Job

The first part of configuring a Job is defining the data to use from one or more Datasets or Ad hoc Queries. There is no hard limit on the amount of data that can be in a single Job, although if a Job is refreshing multiple large Queries, then the Job will take longer to run.

When creating a Job from scratch, click either the Add Data button in the middle of the Job edit page or click the + icon in the top-left of the edit page.

A new Job's edit page with an Add Data button in the center and a + icon in the top-left for adding data components
Adding the first data component to a Job.

When a Job already contains data, clicking the + icon allows you to add more data to the Job. Any data added to the Job runs in sequence, from the top of the list to the bottom. There is no hard limit to the number of data components that can be added to a Job.

A Job's Data panel listing two components, Northwind Orders and Example, with the + icon for adding more data
Adding more data to a Job.
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Jobs return an error if they are run and the connected data has not been refreshed.

Also available through the REST API
Everything on this page is built on Informer's public REST API, the same one the product uses, so your scripts and integrations can do it too. Developer reference: Jobs.