Add "Restart all", "Obsolete all", "Cancel all" buttons in Publisher queue

It would be really useful to add "Restart all", "Obsolete all", and "Cancel all" buttons in Publisher queue in Enterprise Server (BlueCielo Meridian Administration Console).

Sometimes an error may occur, or a user may accidentally queue thousands of documents, and the only way to deal with that many items in the publisher queue is to manually change data in the backend tables.
  • Aaron Swain
  • Mar 19 2019
  • Future consideration
Meridian Server
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  • Ronald Kock commented
    June 09, 2021 09:58

    Sometimes there are too many tasks running because i.e. the render job is set to run immediatly once a document is added to the publisher queue. This may end up having 100+ instances of the ESPADM64.exe running and waiting for a previous task to complete. This process, in my experience, get stuck after some time.


    You really want a cancel all option here, else you have to stop all instances manually. You have to select each running task one by one to cancel them. That is alot of clicking to do.


    Or perhaps instead of a cancel all/restart all make it possible to select multiple running jobs and cancel/restart those with one click.


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  • Chris Tsangarides commented
    October 04, 2019 15:10

    Thank you again for your suggestion.

    There are considerable risks when acting on the entire queue. For example, other users may have added items that are not part of the intended mass changes, either through a workflow process or a manual request. The mass change would then impact these queued items unintentionally.

    An alternative would be to introduce the ability to filter on the queue, then execute bulk change.

    Would this flow of first filtering on the queue and then applying a change to the filtered set, work for your situation?

    Chris Tsangarides
    Product Manager
    Accruent

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  • Chris Tsangarides commented
    September 24, 2019 19:57

    Thank you for your suggestion.
    Development is currently reviewing your idea and is being considered for a future release. Stay tuned for updates.

    Chris Tsangarides
    Product Manager
    Accruent

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  • Aaron Swain commented
    September 19, 2019 12:29

    Any comments on this? It should be fairly simple to implement.

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  • Chris Tsangarides commented
    March 19, 2019 23:17

    Legacy ID: MER-I-102

    Idea created at: 2018-Jun-28

    Referenced customer:

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