Enfocus (Ghent, Belgium), a leader in PDF quality control and automated print workflow, has released its Fall 2022 update for Switch, its market-leading automation platform. Topping the list of new and improved features is the addition of Rush Jobs within the Switch Job Boards. Now, users can change the priority of a job within the Web Portal to make sure that the project is given the highest priority throughout the entire Switch workflow.
“Queued jobs in Switch are by default processed in FIFO order,” said Davy Verstaen, Switch Product Manager at Enfocus. “But what if an urgent job comes in and there are too many jobs waiting ahead of it in the queue to get it processed in time? Enter ‘Rush Jobs.’ You now have the ability to bump jobs up the queue to get them processed faster. And if you have a problem job that you need to retry, you can now give it immediate priority over other jobs. The Job Board now provides the ability to filter and sort the new ‘Rush Jobs.’ ”
The Fall 2022 update for Switch also includes improvements to the Client Module, significant additions to the Scripting Module, and brings multiple UX (User Experience) improvements. These include:
• CLIENT MODULE
– HTML Description in submit points
• SCRIPTING MODULE
– Extract and query XMP info from PDF files with XMP support in Node.js
– Exchange jobs without requiring a direct connection with sendToChannel and subscribeToChannel in Node.js
– Schedule a job to be processed later using processLater in Node.js
– Abort entry point so you can know in your script when to abort and handle this quickly and efficiently
• UX IMPROVEMENTS
– Consistency improvements when navigating the web portal menu