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Find help on using Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro).
- Introduction
  This guide provides detailed instructions for using Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro). It includes initial setup instructions, information about the various parts of the application, and steps to complete common tasks.
- Overview
  Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro) is a web-based application that administrators use to distribute data to mobile devices that run Jeppesen and Boeing applications, such as FliteDeck Pro. Administrators log in to the application to manage their fleets. JDM Pro is provided as Application Service Provider (ASP) software, where Jeppesen hosts and maintains the application.
- Getting started
  Before you use Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro), familiarize yourself with the user interface.
- Managing devices
- Managing distribution groups
- Managing content
  - About content
    Jeppesen delivers content to Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro), and the application distributes that content to the distribution groups you assign it to. Your company can also create content and distribute it with Jeppesen content.
  - About the Content Detail dialog
    The Content Detail dialog provides pertinent information about a content item.
  - About the content Version History box
    The content Version History box provides a list of current and previous versions of a content item.
  - About the Content Version Details dialog
    The Content Version Details dialog provides information about a particular version of content that helps you determine how it arrived at its current status.
  - About assigning content to distribution groups
    To deliver content to all devices in a distribution group, assign the content to the appropriate groups. You can assign the same content to more than one distribution group.
  - Removing content from distribution groups
    If you no longer want to deliver certain content to devices in a distribution group, you can remove the content from the group.
  - About uploading company content
    You can upload content to be distributed to devices. Before you can upload your content, package each item into a .zip file. Only include one content item in each .zip file.
  - About reviewing and approving content
    By default, Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro) sets all content items to be approved automatically. However, you can set any content item to be reviewed by personnel from your fleet.
    - Assigning content for review
      You can set the content review policy to Manual for any content item. After you set the review policy, the policy stays in effect for subsequent versions of the content.
    - Approving or rejecting content
      If you set a content item to be reviewed, when a new version of the content is published to Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro), JDM Pro makes the content available to all devices in the review group. JDM Pro sends an email to the approvers, notifying them that content is available for review.
    - Reviewing off-cycle content
      If a content publisher modifies a published chart or navigational data, the publisher delivers a revised, off-cycle version of the content. Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro) can deliver off-cycle content to devices only when it has been reviewed and approved by an application administrator.
  - Editing configuration file attributes
    You can edit the settings of any configuration file that you created, whether you generated the file with Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro) or uploaded a .zip file into the system.
  - Deleting a specific content version
    You can delete any content version that you import into Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro). When you first delete the content version, it's moved to the Content Trash page, where you can permanently delete it or restore it.
  - Deleting a specific content item
    To delete any content item that you import into Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro), delete all of its corresponding content versions.
  - Invalidating a specific content version
    You can invalidate content versions, regardless of publisher. You might invalidate a content version if the content has bad data or is corrupt. Invalidating the content version prevents the bad content from being delivered to devices.
  - Exporting the Content list
    You can export the items in the Content list to a comma-separated value (CSV) file.
- Managing users
- Boeing Distribution Manager
- Customer-Inserted Charts (CICs)
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Approving or rejecting content

If you set a content item to be reviewed, when a new version of the content is published to Jeppesen Distribution Manager Pro (JDM Pro), JDM Pro makes the content available to all devices in the review group. JDM Pro sends an email to the approvers, notifying them that content is available for review.

About this task

After downloading the content and reviewing it on their devices, approvers use JDM Pro to either approve or reject it.

Procedure

Access the Content page, and select the content item.

JDM Pro displays the Content Detail dialog.

FigureContent Detail dialog with approval requirements set
Select View Version History.

JDM Pro displays the Version History dialog. Content versions that must be approved have the status of Pending Approval.

FigureVersion History dialog with an item pending approval
Select the content version number.

JDM Pro displays the Content Version Details dialog.

FigureContent Version Details dialog
Select Approve or Reject.
- If you select Approve and you're the only approver or the content review requirement is set to Any Approver, JDM Pro approves the content.
- If you select Approve and the content review requirement is set to All Approvers, JDM Pro waits for the other approvers to respond.
- If you select Reject, enter a reason for the rejection. After you select Reject, JDM Pro rejects the content regardless of how many approvers are set to review the content.

Results

When the content has been approved by all necessary approvers or has been rejected, JDM Pro updates the content status. The Content Version Details dialog includes the name of the approvers and whether they approved or rejected the content.