Custom job properties
Custom job properties can be useful in various situations:
- To provide additional sorting and filtering options in the Jobs table
- To pass values that are unique to your company with the job, so they can be printed on banner pages or used by downstream processes
- To include a value that does not otherwise appear in the job properties in a command that invokes an external program
- To record numerical values that are unique to your company with the job.
There are two ways to include custom job properties in your workflows. You can:
- Use supplied custom properties included with RICOH ProcessDirector.
- Define unique job properties for your specific circumstances.
Using supplied custom properties
RICOH ProcessDirector provides 20 properties in the job properties notebook that can be used as custom job properties:
- 10 properties labeled Custom 1 through Custom 10 can be used as custom job properties. These properties can contain text or numeric information about the job.
- 10 properties labeled Custom integer 1 through Custom integer 5, and Custom number 1 through Custom number 5 can be used as custom number job properties. These properties only contain numeric information. Custom integer fields always store whole numbers; Custom number fields might store fractional numbers.
You cannot change the names of the properties; you can only change their values.
Defining unique job properties
If you do not want to use the supplied custom properties, or if you need more custom properties than are available, you can define your own from the Administration tab.
You can choose the database name and the label that displays in property notebooks and column headings. You can also choose what kind of data to store in the property and the default access that different user groups have for the property.