Hide app in maya shotgrid menu?

jkiser · August 3, 2022, 9:12pm

Hey all,

Does anyone kno0w how to hide apps from the shotgrid maya menu. We have a couple of custom apps that work fine and exist in the shotgrid menu however our studio has a custom maya menu and these apps exist in there as well. So having the apps in the shotgrid menu is just a bit redundant. I need to keep the apps in the tk-maya.yml file to make sure they are available in engine but was wondering if there was a “hide” flag or something of the sort I could use to make sure they don’t show.

Ricardo_Musch · August 3, 2022, 9:58pm

As far as I can see there is no property when registering the command with the engine that hides the menu item:

github.com

shotgunsoftware/tk-core/blob/9df4482d6021dd372691b3c385119d6b02c88123/python/tank/platform/engine.py#L912


      
          Shotgun Desktop it is a scrollable list of larger icons.
          
          
.. note:: This method is used to add menu entries for launching
             toolkit UIs. If you wish to register a panel UI with toolkit,
             you need call this method in order to register a menu command
             with which a user can launch the panel. In addition to this,
             you also need to call :meth:`register_panel` in order to
             register the panel so that the engine can handle its
             management and persistence.
          
          
An arbitrary list of properties can be passed into the engine
          in the form of a properties dictionary. The interpretation of
          the properties dictionary is engine specific, but in general
          the following properties are supported:
          
          
- ``short_name`` - A shorter name, typically intended for console use (e.g. 'import_cut')
          
          
- ``icon`` - A path to a 256x256 png app icon. If not specified, the icon for the app will be used.
          
          
- ``description`` - a one line description of the command, suitable for a tooltip.
            If no description is passed, the one provided in the app manifest will be used.

However you could fork tk-core and add this in yourself or you could group your apps together using the grouping properties to try and limit the space they take up.

You could also try to register the command with a different type property to hide it from teh main dropdown menu…

There are options!