Hard Launch Day 2
Some fun, some fear, but it all came out right in the end.
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I had put the XML output into its own printer definition, so that the users would do all their pagination and output , and then do the XML output at the end. We had planned to incorporate this into our final output printer definitions once every pagination had some CCI ads in it. We made the change this afternoon, copying the output into the XMLPaginationReport folder on the CCI server as well as a backup location. The initial output has a pagination status of 3 for all ads; this means "in progress." At 1am we run a cron job that takes the backup file and recopies it with the pagination status changed to 10 or "published" into the XMLPaginationReport folder again.
I had forgotten to set the "write ad list" parameter to X and put the file name in the ad list name area, so I was getting zero-length XML files. Gary fortunately found the problem and we got it all straightened out.
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21 CCI ads did not make it into the extraction. Because of the difficulty in creating them one by one if there is no matching class and sort, I edited the classsrt.out file manually to add them in as display ads. Then we brought the eps files in one by one by pointing the ad records to the CCI folder containing the ads by ad name.
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We had some confusion about the merge files. I have been using symbolic links to existing folders because of the difficulty of getting the CCI and Sii files together in the same folder. I pointed to the wrong folder for the Sii files, but it looked correct because an erroneous extraction from Sii had been made the previous week, so the files that had been there were one week old. I should have noticed the problem in the dates with the new merge list that comes up in ClassPag, but I didn't, and this cost us time before we noticed the problem. We were looking at duplicate ads and wondering why things didn't look right. Moral: always pay attention to the merge list and check the dates assiduously.
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We plan tomorrow to pull out the proofs from one week ago to make sure we aren't missing anything in our pagination "furniture". We copied our existing paginations but there have been some changes since then that could trip us up. Our paginators have good memories but it is better not to depend on that when checking to make sure everything is exactly right in the new pagination.
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I only had a couple of minutes where I actually lost my ability to think.
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-JoAnne
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I had put the XML output into its own printer definition, so that the users would do all their pagination and output , and then do the XML output at the end. We had planned to incorporate this into our final output printer definitions once every pagination had some CCI ads in it. We made the change this afternoon, copying the output into the XMLPaginationReport folder on the CCI server as well as a backup location. The initial output has a pagination status of 3 for all ads; this means "in progress." At 1am we run a cron job that takes the backup file and recopies it with the pagination status changed to 10 or "published" into the XMLPaginationReport folder again.
I had forgotten to set the "write ad list" parameter to X and put the file name in the ad list name area, so I was getting zero-length XML files. Gary fortunately found the problem and we got it all straightened out.
===========
21 CCI ads did not make it into the extraction. Because of the difficulty in creating them one by one if there is no matching class and sort, I edited the classsrt.out file manually to add them in as display ads. Then we brought the eps files in one by one by pointing the ad records to the CCI folder containing the ads by ad name.
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We had some confusion about the merge files. I have been using symbolic links to existing folders because of the difficulty of getting the CCI and Sii files together in the same folder. I pointed to the wrong folder for the Sii files, but it looked correct because an erroneous extraction from Sii had been made the previous week, so the files that had been there were one week old. I should have noticed the problem in the dates with the new merge list that comes up in ClassPag, but I didn't, and this cost us time before we noticed the problem. We were looking at duplicate ads and wondering why things didn't look right. Moral: always pay attention to the merge list and check the dates assiduously.
=============
We plan tomorrow to pull out the proofs from one week ago to make sure we aren't missing anything in our pagination "furniture". We copied our existing paginations but there have been some changes since then that could trip us up. Our paginators have good memories but it is better not to depend on that when checking to make sure everything is exactly right in the new pagination.
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I only had a couple of minutes where I actually lost my ability to think.
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-JoAnne
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