Job and Unit States – Appen Success Center

The tables below contain descriptions of each job and unit state found on the platform and in reports.

Job States

Each job, at any given time, will be found in one of these states.

State	Description
Unordered	Job has not been launched. It may or may not contain units. But never contains judgments.
Running	Job has been launched and is currently collecting judgements.
Paused	Job has been paused. A paused job will always contain units. But may or may not contain judgments. Job can be resumed at any time.
Canceled	Job was cancelled. May contain units and judgements but is not currently running.
Finished	All ordered units have completed collecting judgements.
Disabled	Unit data and judgments are present. Job can be copied with all rows.
Archived	Job that has been in the finished state for 90+ days. Can be restored as needed.
Launching	Job is in the process of being launched. Typically shows in between ‘Not Launched’ and ‘Running’ states. Appears only for a few seconds.

Each data row has a state that describes its status.

State	Description
new	Initial state upon data load. These rows have not collected any judgements yet.
judgeable	The unit has been ordered and is awaiting judgment collection.
judging	The unit is in the process of collecting judgements.
judged	Enough judgements have been collected. But may still revert to ‘judgeable’ if the confidence score is not high enough at any point.
golden	Indicates a test question.
hidden_gold	Indicates a test question that has been disabled.
canceled	The unit has been canceled and is only resumable by an admin user manually changing the state.
finalized	The unit has collected enough trusted judgments to satisfy its requirements.
preprocessing	Applies only to Video Annotation jobs. When the job is launched, the unit goes into the preprocessing state. At this point the video is broken into a series of frames that will be shown to contributors. Once the process is complete, the unit transitions to 'judgeable'.