// Example root macro to create job prferences for DIAL 1.30.
// David Adams
// October 2005

int create_preferences() {

  // Create empty preferences.
  pprf = new dial::JobPreferences();

  // Add maximum # retries.
  // This limit is the total for the compound job.
  pprf->insert("max_retry", "0");

  // Add description of the splitter.
  // ...create splitter
  dset::SimpleEventDatasetSplitter splitter;
  // ...set depth to descend in the dataset tree (-1 for all)
  splitter.set("dataset_depth", 1);
  // ...set minimum # constituent datasets per subdataset
  splitter.set("min_dataset", 1);
  // ...set minimum # events per subdataset
  splitter.set("min_event", 0);
  // ...set maximum # events per subdataset (0 ==> no limit)
  splitter.set("max_event", 0);
  // ...add XML description of splitter to preferences.
  const XmlElement* pxsplitter = splitter.xml();
  pprf->insert("splitter", pxsplitter->to_xml_text("NOCR"));

  // Lock the preferences.
  pprf->lock();

  return 0;
}