Lars Fløe Nielsen

I want to support the Shared Source initiative too, and have therefore decided to upload and share the Task Manager for Sitecore.

If you just want to use it in your Sitecore application, download it from the project room for the task manager application: http://trac.sitecore.net/TaskManager.

So, what can you use it for?

You can start the task manager directly from your task bar on your Sitecore desktop. It’ll show you all job processes of Sitecore (background processes), with their status. For example, try do a full publish, then close the publish dialog while it’s publishing (it’s a background process, meaning this will not cancel the publishing process). The task manager will show you the publishing status, - while you can continue working with other applications such as the content editor.

It’s also possible to use it as a traditional performance monitor. Why is this cool? It’s cool, because you can start a task manager on an application outside your firewall, - without any other access than http requests.

Help me here

I REALLY would like some to help me clean up in this installation. A few years ago, I built this application as a POC on the capabilities on Sheer UI, and have recently changed part of the architecture to support multiple users on the same process collection unit. But I have not cleaned up the source in any significant way.

Drop me a mail, ln at Sitecore.net, to join the Task Manager Project group.