Status updates from custom class and WordAutomation Services TimeJor in irregular intervals

Question

Hello Devs,
following problem: I have a custom application page opened as modal dialog, on which I have a progress bar. The progress bar shows the status of two processes: 
1. On button click about 500-600 list elements are being copied from one list to another. I am monitoring the progress and every two seconds I update (with ajax requests) a progress bar control on the page.
2. After all elements (these are docx files in a document library) were copied I trigger the Word Automation Services timer job to convert these Word files in PDF files. I am also monitoring the timer job progress and update the control on the page.
All this works great in my development environment. In the test environment I have two front-end servers and the progress is not being updated regularly. I have also custom logs and see that half of the logs are on the one front-end and half on the
other. The progress bar updates in big time intervals (or sometimes not) dependant on which server the code runs currently...
Is there a way to always get the actual status of these two processes, no matter which server serves the requests at the moment?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Vasil

Answer 1

Hi Rahul,
this is how I query the timer job status:
private static ConversionJobStatus GetJobStatusObject(Guid jobId)
ConversionJobStatus jobStatus = null;
try
jobStatus = new ConversionJobStatus("Word Automation Services", jobId, null);
catch (Exception ex)
Logger.Error("Error getting the ConversionJobStatus object.", ex);
return jobStatus;
And then I call jobStatus.Refresh() to get the new values.
What could be possibly wrong on the way I get the job status object?
Thanks,
Vasil