Publish presets

Pipeline Integrations
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Hereby I added a request :stuck_out_tongue:

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Iā€™ve added the idea on your behalf, I think it makes sense!
Youā€™re also able to submit ideas from the roadmap page.

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haha thanks Phil!

One more question, how would I launch the specific publisher config from python code inside my DCC?

So instead of pressing the shotgun -> publish -> publisher preset button

What code should I run?

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If you run the following it should list the apps available:

import pprint
import sgtk
engine = sgtk.platform.current_engine()
pprint.pprint(engine.commands.keys())

You can then launch them like this:

engine.commands["publish preset name"]['callback']()

Each preset should register under a different name, so itā€™s just a case finding that name and executing that appā€™s callback. I think the name should be the menu name you provided but yourā€™ll need to check.

Edit: I provided the wrong command for printing the keys, it should be engine.commands.keys() not engine.apps, Iā€™ve update the example.

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Will try! :smiley:

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Question!

Is there a way to wrap my custom collector and plugins into an app that calls the publish app and runs my included collector and plugins?

Basically make such a preset into an app.

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Slight bump :see_no_evil:

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Hi @Ricardo_Musch,

To your question, the short answer is not really. You could have a custom app that runs the Publish API, but if you actually want to run the Publish GUI, itā€™s going to run the environment config.

Curious to know why you would like to do it this way. Could you tell us more about your use case?

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Hmmā€¦

So Iā€™m developing an app that has functionality related to rendering.
I want it to carry a special version of the collector and publish plugins that are specific to this app.

And while publish presets are great, I would rather keep this all inside my app and not have to worry about publish presets being located somewhere else.

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@philip.scadding does this work with publishing out of current context?

For example, letā€™s say Iā€™m running the Publish app in a Sequence_Step context, and during the collector, I change the context of some publish items to a Shot_Step context.

It looks like it looks for the publish plugins for the target context, rather than the originating context. Is there a way to point it to the right publish settings block for the target context?

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Hey @philip.scadding to add on to my previous comment after doing some investigation. By all accounts, this should work based on the tk-multi-publish2 code. It has some logic in there to select the proper context setting by trying to match the instance name (so as long as youā€™ve named the variants the same in the different contexts, it will work) however thereā€™s a bug thatā€™s preventing this from working.

I checked out the repo for the app, and noticed thereā€™s already a PR for it thatā€™s been languishing for quite a while. Any chance you know someone who can push that fix up the priority list?

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Hi all ā€“thanks for pointing out that old PR. I just discussed it with the team, and weā€™ve moved it towards the top of the backlog. Feels like an easy fix, and you all made it clear that weā€™ll get a lot of value from it. Weā€™ll let you know when itā€™s been released!

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