getting all Jobs Filtering on job name

Is there a way to get all jobs based on a job name thereby filtering out all the jobs i dont want to look at?
I am running this script from a Drop Down menu option.

I am currently using the following method.

my $WFsystem = new TeamSite::WFsystem();
my $workflows = $WFsystem->GetWorkflows();
foreach $job (@$workflows)
{
my $JobName = $job->GetName(); chomp $JobName;
next unless ( $JobName eq 'InternalApproval' );
....
more code lines to deal with InternalApproval's
...
}

It just seems quite inefficent to me to go through all the other workflows to find the subset i wanted. I looked at iwqueryjobs but that only seems to filter on active workflows or ones owned by me.

Is there another way?

Hazzie
TS 5.5.2 on NT.

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Migrateduser

No, there is not currently a query optimized for finding jobs by job name.

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer

Adam Stoller

It's not super-optimized, but if you are going to want to do multiple by-name task lookups in a single invokation of a script - use a hash....

my $WFsystem = new TeamSite::WFsystem();
my $workflows = $WFsystem->GetWorkflows();
my %jobhash;
foreach $job (@$workflows)
{
push(@{$jobhash{$job->GetName()}}, $job);
}

foreach my $job (@{$jobhash{"InternalApproval"}}){
...
}

Or something like that (note - the above is UNTESTED - I've generally done similar things with tasks for a specific job - which is a little easier since you don't have duplications of task names - and it works just fine)

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)