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Status words

Canonical meanings of ATSReady Activity list states, detail states, step-level result words, and phase-group summaries.

Reference · about 2 minutes

On this page
  1. List statuses
  2. Detail statuses
  3. Step statuses
  4. Phase-group summaries
  5. The key distinction
  6. Related pages

Use this page for the exact meaning of status words in Activity.

The Activity list with one row per background job, each carrying its own status word.
Every background job the account has run is listed here with its own state. The list words and the detail words are deliberately different vocabularies for the same job, which is why this page has more than one table.

List statuses

Word Meaning
Queued accepted and waiting
Stuck queued and waiting longer than expected
Running working now
Completed finished
Failed did not finish
Cancelled stopped before completion

Detail statuses

Word Meaning
Pending accepted and waiting
Appears stuck pending, but waiting longer than expected
In progress working now
Completed finished
Failed did not finish
Cancelled stopped before completion

Step statuses

These describe one step inside a job.

Word Meaning
Completed the step finished
Running the step is active now
Failed the step did not finish
Not started the job has not reached that step
Not run the job ended before that step
Not needed that step did not apply
Not recorded the step ran but the end state was not recorded

Only the first four are printed as words on screen. Not run, Not needed, and Not recorded share one glyph in the timeline and are announced only to a screen reader, so if you are looking at a step marked with a plain dash, this table is where you find out which of the three it is.

Phase-group summaries

Steps are grouped into phases, and a whole phase can carry its own word. A resume import is the job you are most likely to read these on. Two of them read almost alike and mean opposite things.

Word Meaning
Failed at step the phase stopped at the named step
Never started the phase is finished business and did not run
Not started the phase has not run yet, and still may

The key distinction

Stuck and Appears stuck are warnings about a pending job. They are not separate server states.