Hello, I’m having an issue with a new project I’ve done advanced project setup for. I’m trying to use the standalone Publisher app from Shotgun Desktop to publish some images for a new asset task I’ve created… After I select the context and try to validate the publish, I get the following error: …

The Shotgun guys can give a more informed answer (I don’t understand how the path cache works), but the crude way would be to just add folder creation in the publish hook . This takes an entity type and id.

We generally create folders manually after the shots/assets have been added in Shotgun. Not sure if “advanced setup” would create folders for entities that already exist. Some dcc apps like Workfiles do create folders and register path cache entities. Keep in mind also that this is affected by yo…

Thank you for your input @mmoshev Personally, I’ve never manually created folders for Shotgun projects before. I guess it might be the case that I’ve always published files through a DCC, rather than using the standalone publisher first thing after setting up a project. Since creating a work file i…

Hi @viktor_petrov Have you modified the standalone Publish app hooks at all or settings? I just wanted to understand if you hit this with the default behaviour. However @mmoshev suggestion sounds reasonable if you want to avoid needing to manually create the folders before hand. The reason it’s …

Thanks for chiming in, @philip.scadding I’ve sub-classed and modified the standalone publishing hooks, but I also call the original validation and publishing hooks on run time, so this behavior is by default. Yeah, like I mentioned I also think this happened because this was my first time attempt…

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viktor_petrov May 14, 2020, 5:54pm 5

Yeah, that could work, will try it out, thanks @mmoshev !

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