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2026-03-28 13:23:40 |
| TurboSFV XE v11.01 - Adding service jobs |
TurboSFV XE offers the option to run jobs unattended in the background, as service jobs. These jobs are of a specific type: 'Creation' (for the creation of checksum files for specific files to be specified), 'Validation' (recalculates
checksums for files and compares them with those saved in checksum files) and 'Analysis' (for a deeper analysis of a validation, including a file availability check and a search for new files, which were added to the specified folders since the
creation of the checksum
file).
These jobs must be created and can be managed in the service job list. The context menu of the job list provides entries for the creation of these job types: Along with some general parameters (like job name or time to run), which are the
same for each type, special parameters for the selected job type must be specified, for example the algorithm to be used for creation jobs, or the checksum file for a validation job or the search path for an analysis
job.
Thus, a different number of parameters must be specified, depending on the job type, where some are mandatory and others are optional or use default values. In general, many parameters are making the application very flexible and allow to
fine-tune a job according to the requirements. On the other hand, it takes more time to find an optimal set of job parameters. This is exactly the point, where a new feature in version 11.01 helps
out.
An existing job can be taken as a reference job for a new job of the same type: By opening the context menu (right-click) on a specific job in the job list, there is a new menu entry 'Copy as new job', which allows to create a new job
based on an existing job. The known job configuration dialog appears - with a little difference: All job parameters are prefilled with those from the reference
job.
In order to distinguish between reference and new job, the word 'copy' appears in the fields job name and description on the general configuration page. For the job type 'Creation', this word also appears in the field file name for the
hash file, in order to prevent the use of the same checksum file
name.
By using this new functionality, it's very easy to add new jobs to the job list, based on a known set of parameters, in best case, with optimized parameters for a specific environment: Only a few parameters must be adjusted and there is no
need to reinvent the wheel
again.
Here is the place to add a comment regarding this new version.
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