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      How to ensure that there is always just one open document when running scripts

      For powerJobs 19 or newer:

      Open coolOrange.Applications.psm1 located in "C:\ProgramData\coolOrange\powerJobs\Modules"

      For powerJobs 18 or earlier:

      Open Setup_Job.ps1 located in "C:\ProgramData\coolOrange\powerJobs"

      Add following line of code under the Register-Application cmdlet if you are using Inventor:

      $powerJobs.Applications['Inventor'].RestartOptions.DocumentCloseCounts=1
      If you are using InventorServer add this line of code under the Register-Application cmdlet:
      $powerJobs.Applications['InventorServer'].RestartOptions.DocumentCloseCounts=1
      This sets the Close-Document counter to 1, that means every time a Close-Document is executed, the application restarts and therefore you should always have just one open document. Note that Close-Document has to be executed for this to work. To ensure that it will always be executed there are 3 possibilities:
      1. Add Close-Document to the Setup_Job.ps1 which gets executed before every job
      2. Add Close-Document at the beginning of your job
      3. If the job crashes, Close-Document will not be executed. In that case you can catch the exception with a try catch and add Close-Document in the catch block:
      try {
           <your code>
      } catch {
           Close-Document
      }
      Remarks

      This can affect the speed of the jobs being executed as the application is restarted after every Close-Document

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