Create Custom Publish File Type

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Hi all

I have some custom tk-multipublish2 plugins for our various integrations

I wanted to create some custom PublishedFileType entities to categorise my publishes for example houdini hda and substance sbar as a couple of examples

Is there a recommended way to manage these for my current project? I couldn’t find a page on our site.Are they created when I set the “publish_type” property on my publish items to my custom types or do i need to create them programmaticaly first using the shotgun API?

many thanks

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Hi Sam

Nice to see you in our forums, good question!

The PublishedFileType can be defined simply by passing a string as a published_file_type on the register_publish method.

You could create it manually in the Shotgun site if you like, but it will get created when a publish is registered through the API with that type.

So you should be able to define the prefered type string on your item by setting publish_type. If your plugin is derived from the base plugin and the publish is registered by the base plugin then it will pick this up.

Cheers
Phil

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Excellent thanks @philip.scadding!

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