If you select the Apogee System in the Hardware pane, you will see the Job Housekeeping icon in the Resources pane.

By double-clicking the Job Housekeeping icon, you can access the housekeeping options for archiving and deleting jobs. These tasks are performed on a daily or weekly basis, and cannot be switched off. You can specify, however, the exact time at which the archiving is carried out.

Whether a job will be archived or not, can be set in the Archive after finish option in the Options tab of the Ticket Editor. During the archiving, Apogee examines each job and archives the eligible ones.

Double-click the Job Housekeeping icon to access the Housekeeping settings for a selected System.

Choose when Apogee runs the maintenance tasks by selecting the appropriate options from the lists:

Specify how frequently Job List maintenance should be performed. This may be every day, or on a specific day of the week.

Specify the time of day when the Job List maintenance can start. You can either enter a time, or use the up and down arrows to select one.

Click this button to run all job maintenance tasks without waiting for the scheduled time. Note, however, that deleted jobs will only be cleaned up if you have set the ‘Keep deleted jobs...’ option to 0.

Specify the directory in which job archives and dumps are saved. You need to specify the exact path name and use variables to guarantee a unique file name. You can also use the browse button next to the field to browse for the required location. This location must be a shared disk accessible by both Apogee Client and Server. For more information on variables, refer to System Variables.

Check this option to also archive the Job Log (selected by default).

Apogee system creates the archive directory on the occasion of following events:

Creates an archive folder, when you create a new job or duplicate from an existing one.

Creates an archive folder, if that job has no current archive folder.

Select to run a pre-process script only after creating an archive folder for a new job. You must provide the full path name to the script.

Specify any optional extra arguments that should be passed to the script.

Select to run a custom external script after the archive has been written. You must provide the full path name to the script.

Specify any optional extra arguments that should be passed to the script.

When you run the Job List maintenance, Apogee automatically deletes all finished jobs that are marked for deletion, and that have exceeded their “keep” period, as specified in the Options tab of the Job Ticket (see “When Job is Finished”). However, although it deletes all of the job’s documents, processing results, and processing parameters, it does not delete the job description and log entry. The job is only completely removed using the options in “Clean up deleted jobs”.

Specify how long you want to keep deleted jobs by typing a number in the field and selecting the time unit (hours, days, weeks) in the list next to it.

If you do not want to keep deleted jobs, enter 0.

This task runs the Database Maintenance, as configured in the DatabaseMaintenance tab of the System Configuration.

Compares the Job Housekeeping settings against the default values.

Restores all settings to their factory defaults.