In Orchestrator, journals are logs that collect run-time data about where a file can be found
in the workflow. A
journal book clusters all journal entries into categories. For
example, if an Orchestrator system is handling files from two different media companies, the
user can create two different journal books, called (for example)
Company ABC and
Company XYZ, to track the log entries. A journal book might also capture all the
ingest steps across multiple workflows, for example.
Note: During an upgrade of Orchestrator,
the system automatically creates a journal book called Misc Migrated Journals; all
journals created in the previous version of Orchestrator are migrated into this journal
book.