Starting, Moving, Suspending, and Resuming Jobs

Often, jobs arrive in a TotalFlow Production Manager workflow and start to process immediately. However, there might be times when you need to do an action to move a job through the system or to keep it from moving through the system until later. You might also need to reprint or reprocess a job.

In this section:

  1. Sending Jobs to a Printer or Printer Pool
    If the workflow that creates a job is associated with a printer or printer pool, it automatically sends the job to that printer or printer pool. If the workflow is not associated with a printer, the job is unassigned. You must assign it to a printer or printer pool manually.
  2. Moving Jobs to Another Printer or Printer Pool
    After a job is assigned to a printer, you might need to move it to another printer or printer pool. You can move one or several jobs at a time.
  3. Moving Jobs to Another Workflow
    In order to manage jobs more efficiently, you can move jobs from one workflow into several existing workflows, based on defined conditions. You must assign the target workflows to a printer or printer pool. Also, you can choose to move jobs into a workflow on a remote TotalFlow Production Manager server.
  4. Making Jobs Process and Print Sooner
    Occasionally, you might need to move a job up so that it processes and prints sooner than it would otherwise.
  5. Approving or Rejecting Jobs
    Administrators can specify that at a certain point in the workflow, jobs should require approval to continue. Operators and administrators can approve or reject jobs.
  6. Forcing Jobs in Error to Continue
    If a job has stopped processing because it is in the Error Progress category, you can force TotalFlow Production Manager to ignore the error and continue.
  7. Suspending Jobs
    If you do not want jobs to print until you let them print, you can suspend them.
  8. Resuming Suspended Jobs
    When you are ready to print a suspended job, you can resume it.
  9. Holding Jobs before Printing
    If you do not want jobs to print until a specific time, you can hold them. This is usually done by setting the Print mode property when the job is submitted, although you can do it after the job is submitted. After the job is submitted, it is easier to suspend it.
  10. Storing Jobs
    If you want jobs to be saved in TotalFlow Production Manager after printing, you can store them.
  11. Reprinting Jobs
    Sometimes, you might need to reprint ore or several jobs, or some pages of a job that has already been printed.
  12. Merging Jobs
    You can merge multiple PDF jobs into one.
  13. Reprocessing Jobs
    Sometimes you need to process a job again. For example, you might proof the job, make changes to job properties, and proof it again with the changed properties. Operators and administrators can reprocess jobs.
  14. Unlocking password protected PDF files
    Some jobs might contain password protected PDF files. Operators and administrators can unlock them, using one or several passwords.
Parent topic: Working with Jobs