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The Queue Menu

• New Job
• New Batch of Jobs
• Load Job
• Save Job
• Queue Snapshot
• Show Last 20 Jobs
• Increase Priority
• Decrease Priority
• Pause
• Set Pool
• Show Job ID
• Reset Job Failure Counts
• Delete Job
• Stop Packet and Requeue
• Stop Packet Permanently
• Stop Packet and Submit as New Job
• Restart
• Super Restart
• Exit
• Super Exit

Brings up the Submit Job dialog box, allowing you to submit a new job into the Smedge job queue.

Brings up the Submit Batch of Jobs dialog box, allowing you to submit a bunch of new jobs with the same paramters into the Smedge job queue.

Allows you to use load a .smr file to load a job from disk. The Submit Job dialog box will be opened with the settings from the job you have selected.

Allows you to save a .smr file with all of the jobs currently selected in the Job list on the main window. Note that jobs are saved in their original state, so the file will not be aware of any finished or currently executing packet from the selected jobs.

Allows you to save a .smr file with every job currently in the queue. Note that the jobs are saved in their original state. This file will not be aware of any finished or currently exeucting packets for the jobs in the queue. Jobs that are complete will not be included in this file.

Opens up a the window with the last 20 jobs that you have submitted from this system. This allows you to easily bring up a Submit Job dialog box with all the settings from a previous job.

Increases the priority of every selected job by 1. The maximum priority for any job is 100.

Decreases the priority of every selected job by 1. The minimum priority for any job is 0. If a job is set to priority 0, it will not have any new packets executed.

Decreases the priority of every selected job to 0. No new packets will be executed from any of these jobs until you increase their priority back above 0.

Select an item from the sub-menu to change the pool that every selected job is assigned to.

Opens a window with the string form of the code that uniquely identifies this job in the Smedge system. This code can be used for commandline control of jobs, including deleting a job or setting a new job to wait for this job. The window allows for you to copy this code to the clipboard.

Forces Smedge to reset the failure counts for the selected jobs. This is useful if you have had a temporary problem that has caused jobs to fail repeatedly. Smedge normally keeps a count of the failures, and stops letting clients try (and fail) on a job infinitely. If you have fixed the problem, you can reset the failure counts for a job using this command. To reset failure counts by client instead of by job, use the Reset Client Failure Counts command in the Host menu.

Immediately removes all the selected jobs from the queue. Any active packets from those jobs will be aborted.

Immediately stops the selected packets from rendering and tells Smedge to re-queue those packets.

Immediately stops the selected packets from rendering and tells Smedge to never try to render those packets again.

Immediately stops the selected packets from rendering. The packets are marked as permanently aborted in the job to which they belong, but they are re-queued as new jobs independent of the original job from which they came.

Tells Smedge to try to restart itself. This is useful when things start to go wrong in heavy network situations.

Tells the entire Smedge network to try to restart itself. This will stop all renders on your network. Smedge will try to recover the jobs when it restarts, but any current progress may be lost, Note that clients that have lost their connection to the Smedge master may not receive the Super Restart command from the server, and therefore may not restart correctly.

Closes the Smedge application on your computer. This will make your computer unavailable for rendering and unable to control your render queue. Any renders currently going on your machine will be aborted and re-queued.

Closes the Smedge application on your computer and on every computer that is currently running Smedge on your network. This will stop all renders on your network and remove all of your queued renders. There is no way to recover the state of your render queue after you select this menu item.