If you are working on the same database as that machine on the other site, then that machine could be made to run your jobs. If your IT people can map a drive on the other machine to somewhere that you have access, then you can submit a job that uses the mapped drive as a destination. Alternatively the IT people can give you access to a directory on the server machine.
I have installed the Job Services module and I downloaded the administrators manual to see if there was anything of use in that, regarding configuring the job services.
From what I can see I will have to get our IT people to create a user group "prmjob admins" and find out if when the original installations were done on individual PCs if one of them was set up as the "controller". There is one of our PCs in another site running a summerize process nightly, Im thinking they havent set up the job services as a distributed service. What I would like to do is automate my batch printing and possibly a local back-up of my projects, rather than the server back up, the way the server back-up has been set up if a back-up was required it replaces all of the data in all projects, I would like to have my own insurance!
You need to have the Job Services module installed - usually on another piece of kit. When you create a Job in the Project manager tool it stores the information in the database. the Job Services module reads the information from the database and runs the job when you have asked it to do so.
Since the Job Services module is on the other machine, all the parameters, printers etc must be accessible from the user that is running the Job Services.
Assuming this is now the future and Job Services has been installed, you can submit jobs from your desktop pc, then switch it off, unplug it and throw it out of the window (not a recommendation!) and the job will be executed by the Job Services module on the other machine.
RE: Primavera V4.1 - Job Services
Hi Brian,
If you are working on the same database as that machine on the other site, then that machine could be made to run your jobs. If your IT people can map a drive on the other machine to somewhere that you have access, then you can submit a job that uses the mapped drive as a destination. Alternatively the IT people can give you access to a directory on the server machine.
RE: Primavera V4.1 - Job Services
Hi Barrie
I have installed the Job Services module and I downloaded the administrators manual to see if there was anything of use in that, regarding configuring the job services.
From what I can see I will have to get our IT people to create a user group "prmjob admins" and find out if when the original installations were done on individual PCs if one of them was set up as the "controller". There is one of our PCs in another site running a summerize process nightly, Im thinking they havent set up the job services as a distributed service. What I would like to do is automate my batch printing and possibly a local back-up of my projects, rather than the server back up, the way the server back-up has been set up if a back-up was required it replaces all of the data in all projects, I would like to have my own insurance!
Brian.
RE: Primavera V4.1 - Job Services
Hi Brian,
You need to have the Job Services module installed - usually on another piece of kit. When you create a Job in the Project manager tool it stores the information in the database. the Job Services module reads the information from the database and runs the job when you have asked it to do so.
Since the Job Services module is on the other machine, all the parameters, printers etc must be accessible from the user that is running the Job Services.
Assuming this is now the future and Job Services has been installed, you can submit jobs from your desktop pc, then switch it off, unplug it and throw it out of the window (not a recommendation!) and the job will be executed by the Job Services module on the other machine.
Hope this helps.