It's pretty simple to prevent a new task from being launched if one task (or even a list of specific tasks) is already running, but what about a certain number of a given task?

Hi,

not right now, I am moving this topic to Feature requests forum.

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Hi,

not right now, I am moving this topic to Feature requests forum.

I couldn't find this in the Features Forum, but I was wondering if anything has happened to this request in the past couple of years? More specifically, is there a variable that would return the number of running instances of a given job or task? If so, I'm thinking that could be used in a conditional task to stop the job if it has already launched enough tasks.

The ultimate goal here is to have a job that continuously keeps a certain number of instances of itself running.

Hi,

There is a way to do this now, but's not so nice.
Just use an user variable (int) and add one to in every job as the 1st task.
The last task in every job should substract one from it.
Using a condition on every job you can check this user variable and exit a job if the amount is exeeding a threshold.

Every job should run nicely so the counter stays correct.

But why limit the amount of running jobs?

regards,
Erik

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