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Administration of Broadcast Jobs
JOBADMIN [owner1 owner2 ... ]
The JOBADMIN program provides local control over all aspects of broadcast job management. It allows creation and maintenance of clients and job instances, as well as monitoring and detailed management of job progress.
The program starts with an outline view of clients and jobs:
When you select a client, the client job properties are displayed and can be edited:
Once a job instance has been created, editing is limited to instance-specific items:
A job document can then be selected, if the document is not to be faxed in:
Active jobs can be displayed with the status of each item shown in detail. Right-clicking an item in the list brings up a menu which allows resubmission of failed transmissions and viewing or editing details of the item. The column headings can also be left- or right-clicked to sort the list in ascending or descending order respectively.
For use with very large jobs there is also a 'fast sort' feature, which is selected by holding the control key down while left- or right-clicking on a column heading to sort the list. In this mode, the list is sorted (in a couple of seconds, even for a list with tens of thousands of items) without first refreshing all the items, and using the original values for such fields as Status, which may have changed. The items are, however, refreshed on display and on selection, so after doing a 'fast sort' you may see a few items which appear to be out of sequence, or where the Status value differs from that which would have been selected earlier by the Sent, Fail and Pending checkboxes.
JOBADMIN permits a range of actions to be performed on each job instance, selected by means of a right-click on a job instance in the tree structure:
Some of the above right-click operations may be time-consuming for large jobs and should be used with caution. In particular, the retry-failed operation is not designed for regular use to do 'one more attempt' at the end of a job: if you find this is done commonly, it should indicate to you that the retry parameters need to be changed instead. This menu item pops up a further dialog to allow specific outcomes only to be retried:
The JOBADMIN program includes a multi-page template dialog for setting up broadcast job properties, in a similar way to the template dialog in FFBC. On the 'broadcast' page of this dialog the target address (e-mail address or fax phone) is specified using the same ?n syntax as described for FFBC. The 'n' refers to the column number in the list containing the field required. Note that you can also use @BCFn in these fields to select a broadcast list column value, but that these variables will be left unexpanded when job data is extracted using the EMAILADD field.
When you specify owner folder names on the JOBADMIN command line, only those named folders are loaded for processing. Numeric folder names may be specified either with or without the leading zeros making an 8-digit number. Folder names including spaces must be double-quoted. Wildcards * and ? are permitted in each folder name you add on the command line, except in all-numeric folder names entered without leading zeros.
When started in this mode, the refresh button acquires a dual role. With the left button it performs a refresh loading only the folders specified on the command line, and with the right button the refresh loads all folders. To change the list of folders to be selected, use control-left-click. Whenever you create a new owner record the tree will be refreshed with all owner folders visible, and subsequently left-clicking the refresh button would make the new owner folder disappear if it did not match any of the current selections.
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