git commit, converted over to base.html pulling Status*, rather than every render_template calling it. Tightened up naming for job manager, fixed a few bugs in there with items like div by zero, created the active jobs link/badge in navbar, have it invoked each time by base.html template and it gets active jobs from DB, pa_job_manager now initiliases from an empty DB and can work out where it is at, no loop/thread/or actual job code yet. jobs.py has basics of a NewJob(), so next step is to force that job to be executed in pa_job_manager, but its tea time

templates/base.html

@@ -77,7 +77,17 @@
 						<a class="dropdown-item" href="{{url_for('forcescan')}}">Force Scan (delete data & rebuild)</a>
 					</div class="dropdow-menu">
 				</div class="nav-item dropdown">
-			</div clas="navbar-nav">
+                <div class="nav-item ml-5">
+                    <a href="{{url_for('jobs')}}"}}<span class="navbar-text">Active Jobs: 
+                    {% if GetNumActiveJobs() != None %}
+                        <span class="badge badge-danger text-white"}}>4</span>
+                    {% else %}
+                        <span class="badge">0</span>
+                    {% endif %}
+                    </a>
+                </div class="nav-item">
+			</div class="navbar-nav">
+
 			<form class="form-inline my-2 my-lg-0" method="POST" action="/search">
 				<input class="form-control mr-sm-2" type="search" placeholder="by file, date (YYYMMDD) or tag" aria-label="Search" name="term">
 				<button class="btn btn-outline-success my-2 my-sm-0" type="submit">Search</button>
@@ -85,9 +95,9 @@
 		</div class="collapse navbar-collapse">
 	</nav>
 	
-	{% if message is defined and message|length %}
-		<div class="row alert alert-{{alert}}">
-			{{message|safe}}
+	{% if GetMessage()|length %}
+		<div class="row alert alert-{{GetAlert()}}">
+			{{ GetMessage()|safe}}
 			{{ ClearStatus() }}
 		</div>
 	{% endif %}