actions.job.setHoldReleaseTimeout()<\/pre>\n
we have greater freedom over the timeout value. Back to the customer\u2026<\/p>\n
They currently have a timeout value of twelve hours, this suits them for the majority of printing they perform. As their print facilities are open seven days a week they needed some special rules put in. They wanted users printing last thing on a Friday able to pick up their documents the following week, the same for Saturday and Sunday, if they sent a print on the weekend it needed to be available Monday. The current twelve hour\u00a0timeout value would delete any of these jobs before users had a chance to get at them on Monday. The way around this is to be able to set a custom timeout based on the day (and even the time of day). The thinking behind the script is to keep jobs for 4 days for any print jobs sent on a Friday, 3 days for Saturday, 2 for Sunday and so on.<\/p>\n
The script assumes that Sunday is day 0 (the start of the week) and Saturday day 6 (the end of the week). To help administrators, any jobs sent also have a comment logged against them that explains they had an extended timeout.<\/p>\n
The script performs these actions from 6pm on Friday until 8am Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Feel free to give the script a go, the important bits to edit are:<\/p>\n
actions.job.setHoldReleaseTimeout (2 * _dayMinutes) ;<\/pre>\n
– The dayMinutes value is 1440 (number of minutes in a day). in this example, we keep the job for 2 x 1440 minutes.<\/p>\n
actions.job.addComment(\"Job timeout set to 2 days\");<\/pre>\n
– This is the optional job comment, feel free to remove this line if it is not required.<\/p>\n
To adjust the time, look for if \u201c(_hour < 8\u201d or \u201cif (_hour > 18\u201d, this is very simple and means < before or after > certain times. You can remove these if you need it to apply all day.<\/p>\n
The Script<\/h2>\n
\/*\r\n\/*\r\n \t \t* Revised hold\/release time for job sent out of hours.\r\n \t \t* 6pm Friday - 8 am Monday - extend by X hours.\r\n \t \t*\/\r\n \t \tfunction printJobHook(inputs, actions) {\r\n \t \t if (!inputs.job.isAnalysisComplete) { return; } \r\n \t \t var _today = inputs.job.date.getDay();\r\n \t \t var _hour = inputs.job.date.getHours();\r\n \t \t var _dayMinutes = 1440; \t \r\n \t \t \r\n \t \t switch (_today) {\r\n \t \t \/\/ Sunday\r\n \t \t case 0:\r\n \t \t actions.job.setHoldReleaseTimeout(2 * _dayMinutes);\r\n \t \t actions.job.addComment(\"Job timeout set to 2 days\");\r\n \t \t break;\r\n \t \t \/\/ Monday\r\n \t \t case 1:\r\n \t \t if (_hour < 8) { actions.job.setHoldReleaseTimeout(1 * _dayMinutes); actions.job.addComment(\"Job timeout set to 1 day\"); } break; \/\/ Friday case 5: if (_hour > 18) {\r\n \t \t actions.job.setHoldReleaseTimeout(4 * _dayMinutes);\r\n \t \t actions.job.addComment(\"Job timeout set to 4 days\");\r\n \t \t } \r\n \t \t break;\r\n \t \t \/\/ Saturday\r\n \t \t case 6:\r\n \t \t actions.job.setHoldReleaseTimeout(3 * _dayMinutes);\r\n \t \t actions.job.addComment(\"Job timeout set to 3 days\");\r\n \t \t break;\r\n \t \t }\r\n \t \t \r\n \t \t}\r\n<\/pre>\n
Anything else?<\/h2>\n
When picking a timeout value it is well worth considering the following:<\/p>\n
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The number of print jobs sent and released each day<\/li>\n
The number of printers that make up the virtual queue<\/li>\n
Print server specification (can it cope)<\/li>\n
Run the Unreleased jobs paper saving report to get a good idea of what is going on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The default values will suit a lot of sites, if you do plan to make changes we recommend doing this slowly over time and then see what impact that has had on resources. Or\u2026follow our support teams mantra of using speed and confidence and set it to as many 9\u2019s as you can fit in the box and cross your fingers.<\/p>\n
If you have your own requirements for a print script and you don\u2019t have the time or in-house experience to make it then simply contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Anything else?<\/h2>\nWhen picking a timeout value it is well worth considering the following:<\/p>\n