Publishing Engine Programmer's Guide > The Arbortext Publishing Engine Request Manager > Predefined Dynamic Components > Pre-Defined Queues > Enabling and Disabling a Queue
  
Enabling and Disabling a Queue
A Arbortext Queue may be enabled or disabled. When disabled, a queue will never supply a transaction to the Queued Transaction Scheduler for execution. Whether a queue is enabled or disabled, it will always accept transactions from Queue Managers if the transaction meets its configured criteria.
A queue can be enabled or disabled from the Queue List page retrieved from the Queue List link on the Arbortext Publishing Engine HTML index page or by an f=q-enable request from a client. Refer to Arbortext Queue Request Functions for more information.
When the Arbortext PE Request Manager starts, the queue parameter initial-statespecifies the state of the queue and has the following values:
enabled
specifies that the queue should always be enabled.
disabled
specifies that the queue should always be disabled.
saved (the default)
specifies that the state should be set to what it was the last time the Arbortext PE server was shut down.
If this parameter is not specified, the queue will start out enabled.