Enable running submission to be stopped

[tschaffter]

Submitters have the option to cancel their submission as long as the submission has not started yet. However, it happens that submitters contact us to stop their submissions when they notice that they did a mistake - or they added a while(true) somewhere - and don't want their quota to be eaten.

Describe how to stop a running submission and perform necessary actions to make sure that the following submissions in the queues can continue running. Describe whether an action has to be performed regarding the "restoration" of the quota.

[tschaffter]

@thomasyu888 Any update on adding this feature? Can we copy/paste the solution used in other challenges?

[tschaffter]

Tom said:

Cancelling submissions is something that we already support but I found that it didn't work well
The orchestrator would fail

[thomasyu888]

@tschaffter I think what I need to do is spend a lot of time testing the cancel feature, because it caused a lot of problems for one challenge that we originally had implemented so I disabled it from then on.

[thomasyu888]

@tschaffter Cancelling submissions can be done like this: https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn22277124/wiki/611450. Any submissions that are processing on the i2b2 dataset can be cancelled, but not on the internal queues. A red "cancel" button will appear in the "cancelControl" column.

Unfortunately, it can't be part of the dashboard table because the "cancelcontrol" type isn't supported in submission views.

[tschaffter]

@thomasyu888 Thanks for the update. Can you contact the Synapse team to ask them to support this cancelcontrol type button?

[thomasyu888]

@tschaffter I'll see if I filed a jira for this in the past already. I don't think it will be an easy addition as this feature is explicitly for queues and adding cancelcontrol as a column render type affects all tables in Synapse. The hack would be to have a cancel submissions page, but would sort of duplicate the dashboard pages...

[tschaffter]

The hack would be to have a cancel submissions page, but would sort of duplicate the dashboard pages

@thomasyu888 I don't dislike the idea. We could add a page to the Dashboard section that list all the submissions the user is entitled to cancel.

[thomasyu888]

@tschaffter This JIRA ticket: https://sagebionetworks.jira.com/browse/PLFM-6257 states that these won't be added to submission views. Ya, we could definitely add to the dashboard pages