Publish presets

Ricardo_Musch · February 27, 2020, 12:31pm

Hereby I added a request

philip.scadding · February 28, 2020, 9:34am

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

Ricardo_Musch · March 6, 2020, 11:15am

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?

philip.scadding · March 6, 2020, 11:23am

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 it’s just a case finding that name and executing that app’s callback. I think the name should be the menu name you provided but your’ll need to check.

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

Ricardo_Musch · March 6, 2020, 11:24am

Will try!

Ricardo_Musch · July 15, 2020, 4:12pm

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.

Ricardo_Musch · July 20, 2020, 4:51pm

Slight bump

Ben_xzj · July 21, 2020, 12:49am

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, it’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?

Ricardo_Musch · July 23, 2020, 2:54pm

Hmm…

So I’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.

brhoades · February 16, 2021, 9:42pm

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

For example, let’s say I’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?

brhoades · February 16, 2021, 10:22pm

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 you’ve named the variants the same in the different contexts, it will work) however there’s a bug that’s preventing this from working.

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

tannaz · February 22, 2021, 11:41pm

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