Hi Furkan,

Yes, I agree that this is somewhat confusing.  Not sure what we should do
about this though.  The REST api is an api and cannot be changed.  The UI
could be changed but it may be less clear to UI users that way, and there
may be other problems such as screen real-estate.

Karl


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Furkan KAMACI <furkankam...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> When you create a job from UI you define a name and it becomes a
> description from ManifoldCF perspective.
>
> When you create a job via API you send a JSON request like that:
>
> {
>    "job":{
>       "description":"Dummy Job",
>     ....
>     }
> }
>
> Description is listed as "name" when you check the UI after the job is
> created. I know that "jobs" are different from repository connections, etc.
> and it has an "id" which is automatically generated. Defining a name
> instead of a description maybe useful for UI users but is there any reason
> that why description is defined at API request but its been listed as name?
> It maybe confusing?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Furkan KAMACI
>

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