I tried to search for this with no luck. Is there any way to prevent users from sending out jobs (from 3dsMax) with names that already exists in the job queue?
We often send out several jobs from the same scene, and many tends to forget to rename the job before submission. Which can be a pain if we need to go in and adjust some settings via the monitor later.
Hi Trond,
There currently isn’t anything built into Deadline to prevent jobs from having duplicate names (Deadline uses the job ID to uniquely identify jobs).
You could probably write an event plugin to check for this when the job is submitted. If it finds a duplicate name, it could suspend the job and then print out a warning that will appear in the submission results. Here is the event plugin documentation:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … teventsdk/
We could probably consider adding this as a built in feature in a future release. In fact, it might already be on the wish list. 
Cheers,
- Ryan
+1 for a built-in feature.
Can I have 10 votes for adding this feature?
I know this post is old but i think this issue is still relevant.