Continuing Jobs
A job may be stopped because it has reached a hold Action in its Production Plan, or because it has been aborted, rejected, or in error. In all cases, you can continue all or part of the job manually.
NOTE: You cannot manually continue jobs that are waiting for a Task Processor: They will be continued automatically when a Task Processor becomes available.
To continue results which are waiting on an Action
1 Select the Jobs Window.
2 In the Job List, select a job which has been stopped by Apogee, and is waiting for user interaction.
Jobs which have been stopped due to a hold Action will be flagged with one of the following Status icons:
 | The job’s Production Plan contains an After Hours Action. | |
 | The job’s Production Plan contains a Soft Proof Action. | |
 | The job’s Production Plan contains a Hard Copy Proof Action. | |
 | The job’s output device is controlled by the PlateMaker Client. | |
 | The job’s Production Plan contains a Collect for Output Action. | |
 | The job’s Production Plan contains a Waiting for Results Action. | |
 | The job’s Production Plan contains a Discard Action. | |
 | The job’s Production Plan contains a Web Proof Action. |
3 Select the Results tab.
In the Job Layout pane, you will see thumbnails of all the pages or flats in the selected job. Above each job item, you will see one or more Action icons. These correspond to the Actions included in the job’s Production Plan. The color of each icon indicates the current processing status of the selected page or flat within the job:
•If the icon is displayed normally, the page/flat has not yet reached this checkpoint in the Production Plan.
•If the icon has a blue background, the page/flat has reached this checkpoint in the Production Plan, and is on hold. In this case, the page/flat itself is also colored blue. The exception to this is the pages with the Collect for Output Action, these only turn blue when ALL the specified pages are available.
•If the icon is dimmed (grayed out), the page/flat has already passed this checkpoint in the Production Plan.
4 Select one or more pages or flats which are on hold (blue background).
5 Click Continue.
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The selected pages or flats resume processing, the blue color is removed, and the associated Action icon is dimmed.
NOTE: If you continue a job that is being collected (Collect for Output) but is not yet complete, only the currently available results will be output: Apogee will automatically continue to collect the remaining results, but you will need to select them and again click Continue to output them.
To continue results which were aborted, rejected, or in error
1 Select the Jobs Window.
2 In the Job List, select a job which is flagged with one of the following Notification or Status icons:
•aborted
•rejected
•warning
•error
3 Select the Results tab.
In the Job Layout pane, you will see thumbnails of all the pages or flats in the selected job.
4 Select one or more pages or flats (with the aborted, rejected, warning or error status).
5 Click Continue.
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A Continue confirmation dialog box is displayed.
6 If you wish, enter a comment explaining why you are continuing to process this result.
TIP: You can view this comment later by checking the Job Log (Log for Job).
7 Click Continue.
The selected pages or flats resume processing. However:
•In the Job List, the status of jobs with the rejected or warning condition does not change. Only aborted and error conditions are cleared.
•In the Results tab, the status of results with the rejected, warning or error condition does not change. Only the aborted condition is cleared.
To continue multiple results
1 Select a job in the Jobs window which is waiting on an Action, or is rejected, aborted or in error.
2 Select the Results tab, and choose the first item you want to continue.
3 Extend your selection, as described in “To select or de-select multiple jobs or items”. If the items are part of a flat, select the entire flat.
4 Click Continue.
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NOTE: You can only continue multiple results provided they are all in the same waiting state. This button is disabled if one or more items have a different state, or are not waiting on an Action.
If one or more of the selected items contains rejected, aborted, or error results, a Continue confirmation dialog box is displayed.
5 If you wish, enter a comment explaining why you are continuing to process this result.
TIP: To view this comment later, click the Status icon next to the page in the Page Store or Run List.
6 Click Continue.
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