JobOrder and Snow Leopard compatibility – additional information

AT THIS TIME, WE DO NOT RECOMMEND RUNNING JOBORDER ON SNOW LEOPARD UNLESS YOUR USERS CAN TOLERATE OCCASIONAL GLITCHES.

We have completed basic testing of JobOrder 2009 on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.1). We found and fixed one problem involving our scheduling plug-in.

If you plan to run Snow Leopard, please download and install the latest release of JobOrder 2009, posted at:

ftp://ftp.joborder.com/Public/

If you are running Macintosh OS X 10.6, please also upgrade to Macintosh OS X 10.6.1.

One minor change is that the Macintosh operating system will ask for the user account password the first time that you print from a new JobOrder session. You may see a dialog similar to the password dialog shown below.

This change is beyond our control in JobOrder 2009 in Snow Leopard. JobOrder 2010, the next major release of JobOrder, is now being programmed and will eliminate the need to enter the user password before printing.

In JobOrder you can select Attachments at several locations including Interactions and the Attachments area itself. In Macintosh OS X 10.6.1, JobOrder 2009 may crash after you attach several documents. We do not have a workaround or fix for this problem at this time.

We have also have several reports of random crashes back to the Finder, mostly from 4D Write, and are continuing to investigate.

If we receive any more information about Snow Leopard, we will update the JobOrder blog.

JobOrder works correctly on Windows. None of the above changes affect JobOrder on Windows.

Please email if any of this information needs additional clarification.

Victor Siegle

JobOrder is comprehensive.