I would like to create a report with all the printing info (total number of pages, number of pages for each section, ,number of records, etc.) and I’ve found two problems.
First of them: How can we know when the job is finished? On previous planet press software there was a system variable called ‘eojob’, do we have something like that on connect?
Second issue: How to count the pages I’m printing on different sections, we don’t have global variables now. (I know how many pages I’ve for each section, is a fixed value, but it changes among sections)
At the moment, this is unfortunately not possible, neither directly in Designer (because of the lack of global, incrementable variables) or even in Workflow (because of the fact that the metadata does not count “pages” properly).
There is a technical reasoning behind the lack of incrementable variable however: because jobs can be “split” between separate engines if they are big enough, meaning each of these splits would individually incremement their own instance of the variable, making it useless.