Scheduling a batch of publishing jobs

If you schedule multiple individual publishing jobs to run at the same time on the same Meridian Enterprise Server computer, only one job will run. The other jobs scheduled at the same time will fail without errors. The reason for this is that only one instance of the publishing process may be active at any time. If multiple jobs must be run at about the same time, place them in a batch for execution instead. The jobs will run sequentially rather than simultaneously.

You schedule a batch of publishing jobs by building a list of the publishing jobs that you want to run and then configuring the entire batch to run at a specified schedule.

Note    When a batch publishing job runs, it will appear as one task on the Tasks page . Each job in the batch will also appear on the page and the summary of the batch job will indicate how many jobs (items) are in the batch.

To schedule a batch of publishing jobs:

1. 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.
2. In the toolbar, click Batch Schedule. The BATCH SCHEDULE dialog box appears with an empty job list.
3. Click New. The SELECT A JOB dialog box appears.

4. Select the first publishing job that you want to include in the batch and then click OK. If the job is configured for multiple source or destinations, additional dialog boxes will appear for you to make those selections. When all selections have been made, the job appears in the job list.

   Note    If clustering is configured, the node on which the selected job will run will restrict the other jobs that you may add to the same batch. This is so that only jobs that are configured for the same computer will run together on that computer.

5. Repeat step 4 until all of the jobs that you want to include in the batch are listed.
6. To remove a job from the list, click the Remove icon next to the publishing job name. The publishing job is removed from the batch.
7. Enable Continue if any job fails if you want the other jobs to run even if one of the jobs fails for any reason. That is, the jobs are independent of one another.

8. When you are finished editing the batch list, click OK. The SCHEDULE dialog box appears. This dialog box requires the same input as the Windows Task Scheduler.

   Note    You must enter the credentials of the user account under which the task should be run.

9. Configure the scheduled task to run when you require and then click SCHEDULE. A single task is created in Windows Task Scheduler and it will run on the configured schedule.