Error when resolving path from template at New File open, missing fields

greener2 · January 28, 2020, 5:38pm

Hi there,

I’ve set up a new project on our SG site and a new configuration for SGTK. When I try to create a new file through the File Open dialog (in tk-multi-workfiles2), I get the following error:

TankError: Tried to resolve a path from the template <Sgtk TemplatePath asset_work_area_maya: assets/{sg_asset_type}/{Asset}/work/{Step}/{username}/maya> and a set of input fields '{'username': 'robert-greene', 'Step': 'MDL', 'Asset': 'chr_RobTest'}' but the following required fields were missing from the input: ['sg_asset_type'] //

I can’t see what in my configuration could be the cause of this. Anywhere I can start searching?

Thanks!
Rob

Ricardo_Musch · January 29, 2020, 10:13pm

Is the asset linked to an asset type?

greener2 · January 30, 2020, 9:45am

Yes all of the assets are assigned an asset type in Shotgun, if that’s what you mean.

philip.scadding · January 31, 2020, 9:04am

It maybe possible that the schema has changed since the folders were registered, or that maybe the asset type value has changed? Can you try unregistering the folders for that Asset and see if that works then?

Failing that feel free to pop a support ticket in and we can dig deeper, and then report back here with the solution.

greener2 · January 31, 2020, 10:28am

Hi Philip,

I’ve tried unregistering folders using:

tank Asset chr_RobTest unregister_folders

And also:

tank unregister_folders --all

But I still run into the same issue. I’ve raised a ticket with support, so I’ll report back with what the problem is.

philip.scadding · January 31, 2020, 12:16pm

I just took a look at your site, and can see that a bunch of folders were unregistered and that there appears to have been duplicates in the past from different asset types. Though the FilesystemLocation entities look clean now.
Can you try running the folder creation manually on that one Asset and seeing if that helps?

greener2 · January 31, 2020, 12:20pm

Weirdly, when I run that:

tank Asset chr_RobTest folders

I get the following:

So it seems to make a folder for every asset type for that asset. So that seems wrong to me! Any idea what could be causing that?

philip.scadding · January 31, 2020, 12:24pm

Ahah! Yes I can spot the issue. Looking at the config you provided you are missing a filter in the asset.yml, your missing:

github.com

shotgunsoftware/tk-config-default2/blob/v1.2.12/core/schema/project/assets/asset_type/asset.yml#L27


# the shotgun entity type to connect to
entity_type: "Asset"


# shotgun filters to apply when getting the list of items
# this should be a list of dicts, each dict containing 
# three fields: path, relation and values
# (this is std shotgun API syntax)
# any values starting with $ are resolved into path objects
filters:
    - { "path": "project", "relation": "is", "values": [ "$project" ] }
    - { "path": "sg_asset_type", "relation": "is", "values": [ "$asset_type"] }

So it is creating the Asset folder for all asset types rather than just the one it belongs to.

greener2 · January 31, 2020, 12:56pm

That was it! Thanks so much Philip. Because the error wasn’t pointing towards anything very specific, I was finding this one hard to track down! Much appreciated!

philip.scadding · January 31, 2020, 1:44pm

Yeah I can understand, the error is not clear about where the problem is. The code just knows it wasn’t able to extract the value from the path correctly. So if that happens it generally points to a path cache/schema/templates issue.
Glad it’s sorted!