rejectWork - Amazon Mechanical Turk
DescriptionArgumentsExampleOutput

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rejectWork

Description

The rejectWork command rejects assignments submitted by Workers. You can reject single assignments, or you can specify a file that contains the assignments to reject.

Arguments

The following table describes the arguments for the rejectWork command.

Name Description Required

-assignment [assignment IDs]

Specifies the assignment ID to reject. For multiple assignments, separate each assignment ID with a comma.

Condition: Required if the rejectfile argument is not specified.

Example: -assignment 0YFZ2TYJF3HZPGZV4Z40EZD4YZZFDSTZ0YG78W2Z

Conditional

-force

Specifies not to prompt for manual confirmation before performing the reject operation. Only advanced developers should use this argument.

Example: -force

No

-help or -h

Displays the help for this operation.

Example: -help

No

-rejectfile [filename]

Specifies a text file that contains a list of assignment IDs and optional rejection comments. For information about this file, see The reject file in Files Used by the Command Line Tools.

Condition: Required if the assignment argument is not specified.

Example: -rejectfile helloworld_reject.txt

Conditional

-sandbox

Runs this command in the Amazon Mechanical Turk sandbox for testing. This argument takes precedence even if you specify the production web site in your mturk.properties file.

Example:-sandbox

No

Example

The following examples for Unix and Windows show how to use the rejectWork command. These examples reject the specified assignment with no additional comments.

Unix

The following example demonstrates how to call this command from Unix. 


./rejectWork.sh -assignment 0YFZ2TYJF3HZPGZV4Z40EZD4YZZFDSTZ0YG78W2Z

Windows

The following example demonstrates how to call this command from Microsoft Windows. 


rejectWork -assignment 0YFZ2TYJF3HZPGZV4Z40EZD4YZZFDSTZ0YG78W2Z

Output

These examples produce the following output.


You are about to reject 1 assignment(s).
To confirm this operation, please press ENTER (or press Ctrl+C to abort):

If you would like to supply a comment to the worker(s), please type it below then press ENTER. 
If not, just hit ENTER:
	
[0YFZ2TYJF3HZPGZV4Z40EZD4YZZFDSTZ0YG78W2Z] Assignment successfully rejected with comment ()