# Plot Management

## How to Execute a Plot Job

| ### What to do:
| Select Start > Plot > Plot orders. The Plot order mask is opened.
| Select a plot job.
| The system cannot display any data unless there is status information available for the plot job and for all associated documents! Each time the update function is executed, all status files of the plot server are read and reprocessed!
| Click .
| The plot job is submitted to the plot server system for plotting. The following message is displayed in the message window:
| The current plot job is executed if it has the status NEW. An error message is displayed in the status line if the status of the current plot job is not NEW. Go to the Plot orders mask and click .The List of plot jobs is displayed. One or more plot jobs may be highlighted and selected for plotting in this list.