Standalone publish, Task and entity link

[pata]

Hi

Is it possible to update the task and entity link on the standalone publisher through hook overrides? Based on the name and type of what I am publishing I would like to set the entity and task.

Cheers

Pat

[philip.scadding]

Yeah, that is possible.
The simple answer is you would want to take over the collector hook, and set the item context.

There are a couple of other posts around doing this:

Setting an item's context in Publish2

It continues but the UI becomes weird and all items become some kind of thing that is#nt selectable: [image] (Whited out NDA info) Commenting out only that line results in the proper behaviour and my code works fine: [image]

Customizing Publisher with templates

Hi all, I’m kinda new to SG, and I’m still trying to figure out lots of things. So apologies in advance for any blasphemies I might be writing in this post! I’m trying to customize my pipeline so that published files are handled unrelated from tasks. I’ve created a PublishedItem custom entity to represents the items that I want to publish and that I want to keep track of. I’ve added a “Published Items” field to the Task entity, and a “Tasks” field to the PublishedItem entity. Basicall…

[pata]

Ah okay, so you update the item.context in the collector and the UI automatically updates to reflect this. In the end I just set the context in the publish_file to avoid any user errors.

Great, thanks.

[philip.scadding]

If you would like your users to not be able to change the context, then you can set: item.context_change_allowed = False in the collector as well as setting the desired context.
That will hide the context picker widget in the UI.

[pata]

If you have multiple items, the UI is disabled for each item but then there is a Publish Summary where you can set the context for all items. Is it possible to disable this as well? I’m setting the context at publish time so it’s not a major issue, but might be confusing to users.