DC-X 1.7.2.0 now available

Our partners can now download a new version of our media asset management system DC-X, 1.7.2.0.

It’s mostly a bugfix release – no new user-visible features. But it’s paving the way for the upcoming task/assignment functionality, stay tuned!

A nice enhancement for system administrators is support for the cron date/time format in the DC-X scheduler:

Repetitive background tasks, like the frequent purging of old and unused documents or nightly batch exports, are usually executed through cron on Unix servers. But cron is not well-suited for server clusters, and creating or modifying cron jobs is relatively complicated.

That’s why we have a simple cron replacement in DC-X, the scheduler. Scheduled job definitions are created in the DC-X administration interface. A background process checks which of them are due and creates jobs which are then asynchronously executed by the DC-X workflow engine.

Until now, the scheduler only allowed defining schedules to be executed each N minutes. The new cron syntax support means that you have the flexibility to, for example, run a job every 5 minutes on weekdays between 9 AM and 6 PM only. A small but nice feature!