Selecting Contextual Packages In A Custom Job; Dynamic Group Content Identification - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Selecting Contextual Packages in a Custom Job

When defining a Custom Job, the packages that you import in prior Import or Directory Monitoring Job Steps
are available for selection as source or target packages when defining operations in subsequent Job Steps.
The packages that will be imported in an Import or Directory Monitoring Job Step are selected when the Job is
executed, not when the Job Step is defined, so the names of those packages are unknown.
Therefore to make these imported packages available for selection when defining subsequent Job Steps, they are
listed in the Contextual Packages group in the package tree and are referred to in context of their associated
import step, such as
Figure 23-1: Contextual Packages Group

Dynamic Group Content Identification

You can create a Custom or Template Job that will perform actions on whatever packages are in a selected group
at the time the Job is executed.
Therefore, you can schedule a reoccurring Job to automatically perform actions on the exact contents of a group
without ever having to select any packages or create any new Jobs. This allows you to enforce consistent business
practices on a group's contents even as the content changes.
For example, your organization could have a policy of importing all new packages into a specific group, such as a
New Products Group. You could then choose to schedule a Job to run each night that would automatically perform
conflict analysis and resolution using the packages in the New Products Group as the source packages and using
selected packages in the Application Catalog as the target packages. In the morning, you could quickly see the
current state of each package and continue the evaluation process.
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is the number of the Job Step that performed the import.
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