Sort of kind of how beta testing works there...actually PP is pretty unfunky compared to fun in Poser 7, and before that P6, and before that P5, and P4 and...

So I guess if this is the PPro funkiness it's not as bad as some I had in P7 where I'd
suddenly lose a couple hours of work when it blew a gasket.  Or where I'd have to basically
reboot to get the library manager to come back from off the deep end.

The thing with the QM is I see lots and lots of great potential, but it's like most of the buttons
are missing.  You look at the thing and you think wow I should be able to do this or that, but
literally what you see is what you get and in fact it's not quite what you get.  Those menu
items don't have anything useful.  So what if I can show views of suspended jobs
or what not.  I can't do much to them, at least not remotely.

yes, if I go onto a machine where QM is running and 4 different PPro GUI's/PPro master queues have submitted stuff to my machine, I can sort the order around on that machine.

OR, if I have like 5 nodes, and I push out 5 different jobs, then I could go to each node and
it's QM and change the priority of particular jobs...

but that's about it.

I mean you can clearly see where "someday" there will be lots of cool functionality, I can
see where this could grow and be super for a team environment and "group render farms"
but before that

1)  It needs to be able to run as a Service (right now it's a user application that you "Start")
2)  you need to be able to have more than one processor per queue manager.
     --I want an option screen where I can say "use n of M processors",
    --I want to adjust system priority of jobs not just order...but like in Task Manager
    --Memory restrictions....use max of X memory
   --staging directories/drives---I want to define the scratch drives for each processor queue
3)  I want to do all this remotely from a single Master Queue Manager
    ---right now to see what node is working on what image, I have to go to EACH node and look.
   ---the QM should have a sub-table display that shows me what image is being run on which node and what the current status is.
4)  I want common logging to see info in one place for all nodes.

If you look at the image I attach that's pretty much all you see and you can only do on any
node what the button lets you.

The white QM is the master one where PPro is running (W2K8x64). 
You see one done job, you aren't seeing Canceled jobs, those just sort of vanish.

You see the job that's running, and how many images it has sent out.

You see the next job waiting to go.

The second one is a node running on my Vista x64 box.  You just see the single frame/image
it is working on right now.  No history no future no progress report.

The host field shows what host submitted it, so in theory, I could have another machine running
PPro submit to the queue and it would be next in the list and I could reprioritize...but that
would be it.  I want to assign proc's etc.

it's all sort of weird.  Maybe if I were doing something other than single images, like
an AVI or part of a big image or I don't know....It's like it's setup to someday do more,
but doesn't yet today.