# Batch publish

**URL:** <https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/batch-publish/7676>\
**Category:** Pipeline Integrations\
**Created:** [March 10, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/batch-publish/7676 "2020-03-10T21:25:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jkiser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jkiser](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/jkiser)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/batch-publish/7676/1 "2020-03-10T21:25:23Z")

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Just wanted to check here to see if this is even possible. Recently my studio needed to batch republish a bunch of assets and I would have loved to use the stand alone publish app to accomplish this but it seems as though application specific file modifications are not handled by the tool. For example I have a few publishes inside of maya that modify the current scene and export an fbx file that then gets put into perforce for our developers ect. Those publishes when I try to add them to the stand alone don’t work because they have an import of the maya cmds module which is not available outside of maya. Is there a way to get this system to open an instance of maya in the background to run these types of publishes. It would be amazing to drag a bunch of maya scenes into the publisher app and have it publish the ma files and kick out our fbx files.

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**Author:** ![Ricardo\_Musch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/ricardo_musch/32/405_2.png) [@Ricardo\_Musch](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/Ricardo_Musch)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 11:49am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/batch-publish/7676/5 "2020-03-12T11:49:14Z")

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Write custom hooks for the standalone publisher to send farm jobs that open maya and do things?

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**Author:** ![brandon.foster](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/brandon.foster/32/91_2.png) [@brandon.foster](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/brandon.foster)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/batch-publish/7676/6 "2020-03-12T13:26:36Z")

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Hi Ricardo,

We had a webinar on the subject of publishes which may help sort things out for you:

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**Author:** ![Ricardo\_Musch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/ricardo_musch/32/405_2.png) [@Ricardo\_Musch](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/Ricardo_Musch)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/batch-publish/7676/7 "2020-03-12T13:40:37Z")

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Think this was meant for @jkiser 😉

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**Author:** ![brandon.foster](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/brandon.foster/32/91_2.png) [@brandon.foster](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/brandon.foster)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/batch-publish/7676/8 "2020-03-12T13:41:26Z")

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That’s what I get for posting before ☕. Thanks for the correction!