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- the submitting user is not required to know that application's installation path on the remote worker.
- since the application does not include a hard-coded path to the 3rd-party application, the job is able to run across machines of differing operating systems at the same time.
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The appFinder jobs do not perform a "best match" for version number; if AfterEffects CS5.5 is specified, it will not use CS6 if CS5.5 is not installed. A warning message will appear in the job logs, and the job instance will be restarted on another worker. |
How do they work?
When the job is submitted, the command line contains a "application template" that looks like __XYZ__ The XYZ portion between the double-underscores specifies which application to run. Currently,the following applications are supported, being specified in the API library file $QBDIR/api/python/qb/backend/appDefaultPaths.py
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