Assignment types

About assignments and assignment types

Assignments define the specific tasks that jobs perform. Each job runs a sequence of assignments that represents sequential phases of content distribution. See the following table for definitions.

Retrieving the assignment type

Use the GetAssignmentTypeID() method of the CDAssignment class to retrieve the assignment type for any assignment. See com.netapp.contentdirector.api.jdk.CdObjects > CdAssignment > getAssignmentTypeId in the API Javadoc.

Commonly used assignment types

A job typically has the assignment type of publish. If a user aborts a job before it is completed, the assignment type is abort. The following table contains the five assignment types you see through the API. For more information about replicate and repush, see the ContentDirector 2.0 Administration Guide.

Assignment type	Description
CCMEVENT_ABORT	User aborting job
CCMEVENT_PUBLISH	Delivering command buffer
CCMEVENT_REMOVE	Deleting job
CCMEVENT_REPLICATE	System created
CCMEVENT_REPUSH	Resending job to destinations that did not receive it the first time