I have a CSV file with 100,000 records that generates a PDF output with 18 pages per record. I would like to process data mapping and content creation earlier, which occurs during the week and do output generation only over the weekend.
Does anyone have a sample workflow process with this two-step?
The first one handles Data Mapping and Content Creation. Immediately after the Data Mapping and the Content Creation tasks, add a Set Properties task, and set the Entity option to Content Set (which represents all the contents the previous task just finished generating). In the Properties list, create a new property name (say, WeeklyRun) and set its value to something unique (for instance OnHold).
The second process, which only runs on weekends, uses the Retrieve Items task to gather all Content Sets generated over the previous week that have the WeeklyRun property set to OnHold.
Set its Entity to retrieve option to Content Set, then specify a condition where the Name is set to WeeklyRun, the Type to Property, the Operator to Equal and the Value to OnHold. You can then add a Job Creation task and an Output Creation task to actually start generating your output.
Be aware that when using the Retrieve Items task, the Job Creation task cannot use a Job Preset: it generates a single job for all Content Items that were retrieved.