Settings for Incremental Jobs

There is an additional tab on the Job Builder dialog called Incremental Settings that is hidden by default, and which can be displayed if needed by setting Enable Advanced Job Properties to "True". (See Advanced Configuration Properties.)

These settings are used to help improve performance when running incremental jobs. By default, any recognized change to a master document or reference document in the input set will cause the changed document to be reprocessed when running the job incrementally. Using these settings, you can specify which types of changes will and will not cause a document to be reprocessed when running the job incrementally. These settings do not apply when running the job in full.

Note: Some of these settings are not designed to be changed in between incremental job runs. Due to the nature of how the rendition and distribution times are calculated and persisted in the database and job working folder, changing the Update Time or File Update Time settings without resetting the job or performing a full job run may result in source documents not being reprocessed as expected.

Important: The Document settings below only apply to master documents in the input set, and the Reference settings only apply to reference documents in the input set.

Setting	Description
Document Update Time	If True (default), reprocessing is performed if the source master document's update time has changed since the previous job run.
Document File Update Time	If True (default), reprocessing is performed if the source master document's file update time has changed since the previous job run.
Document URL	If True (default), reprocessing is performed if the source master document's name or location has changed since the previous job run.
Document Attributes	When Document Update Time is set to False, use this setting to specify which environment attributes of the source master document should be checked for changes since the previous job run. Each attribute in the list must be separated by a semicolon. If the value of any attribute in the list has changed since the previous job run, the source master document is reprocessed. You can use the wildcards * or ? when entering an attribute name. Attribute names are not case-sensitive. Environment attributes not listed here are ignored and changes in their values do not cause reprocessing. Also, environment attributes that are listed here but are not present in the source master document's environment are also ignored. Tip: When Document Update Time is True, there is no need to configure this setting, because any document change, including attribute values, will cause reprocessing.
Reference Update Time	Same as Document Update Time, but only applies to references.
Reference File Update Time	Same as Document File Update Time, but only applies to references.
Reference URL	Same as Document URL, but only applies to references.
Reference Attributes	Same as Document Attributes, but only applies to references.