Job, group, and file naming requirements and best practices
The name of a job or pre-job must:
●
Be 31 characters or less.
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Be unique:
A job and pre-job cannot have the same name.
Two jobs cannot have the same name, even if they are in different
groups.
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Not include the following special characters:
/ : ' \ " ? * <
> |
.
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Not include Windows-reserved device names for the name of a file,
such as
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3,
COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2,
LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
.
Note: Prinergy will not show an error if you use these device names.
The name of a group must:
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Be 31 characters or less.
●
Be unique.
●
Not include the following special characters:
/ : ' \ " ? * <
> |
.
Note: While Prinergy will not show an error if you create group names with
these characters, you will not be able to archive jobs to disk from such groups.
The name of files used in Prinergy (input files, impositions) should:
●
Not include the following special characters:
/ : ' \ " ? * <
> |
.
Not include Windows-reserved device names for the name of a file,
such as
CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3,
COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2,
LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9
.
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Not include characters that could interfere with the operation of
APA, such as
# $ , .. + - * %
Template jobs
A template job is a job that contains settings that you want to reuse in
other jobs. Any existing job or pre-job can act as a template job.
For example you may expect to create the same hot folders to add
input files or import imposition plans to each of your jobs. Rather than
re-creating the same hot folders each time you create a new job, you
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