Bentley i-model Composition Server for PDF Help

Creating Job Definitions

A job definition establishes the rules for a particular job. This includes:

  • which source documents to process (the input set)
  • whether the job will only create renditions, only distribute source documents, or both create renditions and distribute source documents
  • which InterPlot presentation settings to use when creating renditions
  • which format(s) you want the renditions to be
  • how to name the new rendition documents
  • where to store the new rendition documents and/or where to copy the distributed source documents
  • whether or not to map attributes from source documents to the new rendition documents and/or distributed source documents

Job definitions are created and edited using the Job Builder dialog. First you add the documents you want to process to the input set, and then you specify how you want the documents to be processed by applying preconfigured rendition profile components to the job. These components are created by the administrator in ProjectWise Administrator and contain the actual processing instructions (see the ProjectWise Administrator help for details). These components must be configured before you can create any jobs. You can reuse the components in as many jobs as you need.

Once the minimum criteria have been added to a job definition, you can save it. Once saved, your job is ready to be run. You can create as many job definitions as you need. You can also reuse and edit existing job definitions. You can also save a copy of a job definition under another name.

Job definitions are stored in the active Orchestration Framework database, as displayed in the Bentley iCS for PDF Browser . The job definitions are grouped in the database by the ProjectWise datasource from which the job's input set draws its documents. Despite this grouping, the job name itself must be unique within the Orchestration Framework database.