Importing publishing jobs
Importing publishing jobs creates new publishing jobs using the configuration information from jobs that were previously exported from Publisher.
Importing publishing jobs can be useful for several reasons:
- To restore job configurations to a known point in time, such as before major changes were made.
- To rebuild publishing jobs after an accident.
- To duplicate the configuration of Publisher jobs on another server.
Notes
- Importing a publishing job with the same name as an existing job will create a duplicate job and will not update or overwrite the existing job.
- If the publishing job specifies a source or destination system that does not exist, a warning will appear but the job will be imported anyway. You may then specify the missing systems.
- Imported publishing jobs retain the name of the computer (cluster node) that they were originally assigned to. To use them on a different computer (cluster node), you must modify the computer name as described in Configuring a publishing job.
- Importing publishing jobs will also import the rendering profiles that were used by all jobs on the source computer. If the rendering profiles were originally associated with a different computer (or cluster node that does not exist in the new cluster), the rendering profiles cannot be used with publishing jobs on the current computer. You can either modify the computer name of the imported rendering profiles (except for the AutoCAD rendering module) or copy them as new rendering profiles and assign them to publishing jobs.
To import a publishing job:
- In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the Data Exchange group, click Jobs. The All Jobs page appears and lists the existing publishing jobs. The jobs are grouped by the name of the computer (cluster node) to which they have been assigned.
- In the app bar, click IMPORT. The IMPORT JOBS dialog box appears.
- Click the folder icon
. The Choose File to Upload dialog box appears.
- Select a file on the local computer that you want to import and then click Open. The file location appears in Jobs.
- Click UPLOAD. The file uploads to the server and the IMPORT JOBS dialog box lists the jobs that are contained in the uploaded file.
- Select the jobs that you want to import and click Import. The import task is started in the background and you can continue working. When the import finishes, the new publishing jobs will appear in the job list.