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Response actions – Apple Final Cut Server User Manual

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Part II

General Administration

Response Actions

What you choose from the Response Action pop-up menu defines the response’s basic
purpose. Some response actions have additional settings that can be configured in a
second pane that gets added to the column on the left.

Response action

Triggered by

Description

Check the disk space
of the database volume

Schedule

Defines the minimum disk space before a warning
is issued that the database is about to run out of
room.

Clean Jobs

Schedule

Defines periods at which jobs are archived and
deleted.

Clean Logs

Schedule

Defines periods at which logs are archived and
deleted.

Copy

Poll watcher or asset
subscription

Copies media to any connected Final Cut Server
device with or without transcoding. Optionally,
creates a new asset in Final Cut Server and allows
you to set that asset’s metadata.

Delete

Poll watcher or asset
subscription

Deletes the item. You can choose to have this
response run even if other responses in the list
fail.

Email

Poll watcher or asset,
production, or job
subscription

Sends an email. You configure the email settings
(to, sender, subject, and message).

Log

Asset, production, or
job subscription

No additional options. Adds an entry to the log.

Measure database size

Schedule

No additional options. You can use this to find the
disk space used by the catalog’s database (the
results are shown in the Log pane). This action
measures only the database—it does not include
the actual assets the catalog refers to.

Monitor Scan

Poll watcher

Scans for specific metadata settings.

Move to Archive

Asset subscription

No additional options. Moves the media to the
selected archive device.

Purge Subscriptions

Schedule

Deletes subscriptions that have not been active
for a specified number of days.

Read XML

Poll watcher

No additional options. Reads XML data from an
external system. It is used in
conjunction with the
Write XML response action.