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alias: user-guide-create-adhoc-job
description: "Create an immediate scheduling job for a material, meeting specific preconditions and resource requirements"
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# Create Ad-Hoc Job

:lock: Material.**CreateJob**

## Overview

This operation is used to instantly create a scheduling job for a Material.

## Setup

No special setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

## Preconditions

* Material is Active and in state Queued.
* Both the Material's Product and Step must be marked as "Include In Scheduling".
* No active job for the same Material and same Flow Path exists and Material CurrentScheduleJob = null and Material RequiredFutureAction = null.
* Schedule exists and it is Active and the same Schedule must be associated with the Step's Area (at the Material Facility) and the Resource's Area.
* Resource DispatchScheduleType must be Scheduling and SchedulingType must be Machine.
* Material required Service must not be Null.
* Resource must provide the Service (enabled locally at the Resource and globally at the Service) required by the Material.

## Sequence of Steps

### Step 1: Resource

1. From the available resources, select the resource where the job must be created.
2. Review the resource details.

![adhoc_job][adhoc_job]

### Step 2: Job

1. Specify the intended job start date and time.
2. Optionally, enter a comment.
3. Click **Create** to complete the transaction.

![adhoc_job2][adhoc_job2]

[adhoc_job]: images/adhoc_job.png
[adhoc_job2]: images/adhoc_job2.png