Changing the execution to be synchronous

When you link two entries with a hop, you force an order of execution. Now look for the following Job:

Sample Job with no predefined order of execution

Although the figure implies that the entries are run in parallel, that is not the case. On the contrary, when you create a Job like this, the entries still run in sequence, one entry after another, depending on the creation sequence.

If you really intend to run several entries in parallel, you can explicitly set that action. To do that, right-click on the entry from which the parallel task will run. Then select Launch next entries in parallel. Once selected, the arrows to the next Job entries will be shown in dashed lines, as shown next:

Running Job entries in parallel

Note that not only the next job entries are launched in parallel, but all the ones that follow them.