A pre-job is similar to a job but is used when you want to store elements that are used in more than one job.
Pre-jobs are useful in these ways:
- To automatically create jobs by dropping exported jobs into pre-job hot folders
You create a pre-job with hot folder that is linked to an import process template. When you drop exported jobs (with a .zip extension) into the hot folder for the pre-job, Prinergy automatically creates a job. The job is at the root of the server on which the pre-job exists, and has the same name as the exported job. - As a place to collect elements that are used in many jobs, such as logos
When you want to use these elements in a job, you point the image paths from the job to the pre-job folders where the items are stored.
For example, if you produce a magazine for the same customer every month, you may want to reuse an image search path. To do this, create the pre-job, and then set the image search path to a folder containing the customer's logo and other frequently used images. Then when you create a new job for the customer, copy the image search path from the pre-job. The new job can then access the same images.
- By customers using Prepress Portal to upload files
For more information see your Prepress Portal documentation.
We suggest that you create a pre-job on each of your job servers, so you can make use of the pre-job feature on each of your servers.
NOTE: RBA object/array defined for Jobs will appear as null for Pre-Jobs and as a result, either the Rule Set would crash or no report would be generated.