Activating and Deactivating Jobs in the Queue

As requirements change, you can deactivate an active or pending job in the rendering queue, or reverse the process and restart jobs that are inactive.

When you deactivate a job, the servers assigned to the job either drop the frame they are rendering or finish writing the frame, depending on where they are in the rendering process. The next pending job becomes active and begins to render.

You can reactivate a suspended job, or a job that was submitted as Initially Suspended from the Network Job Assignment dialog.

Procedures

To deactivate a job:

Select a started or active job in the Job list.
Do one of the following:
- Click the Suspend button on the toolbar (the red light-bulb icon).
- Choose Jobs menu Suspend.
- Right-click the job name to display a pop-up menu, and then choose Suspend.
  If necessary, click the toolbar Refresh button to view the new queue status.

To activate a suspended job:

Select the inactive job (denoted by a gray box).
The Activate button on the toolbar becomes active.
Click Activate, or use the menu bar or right-click menu.
The job becomes either started or active in the queue, depending on whether or not another job is currently rendering and whether or not any of the job's frames have already rendered.