Remus Avram

We tried multiple ways. It will not work. If you are using multi threads, use multiple session.

Thanks @Martin Pengelly-Phillips for your info. I am interested how others studios are using the `ftrack_api`.

Thanks @Martin Pengelly-Phillips for the info! So as I understand the cache is build per session. If there is a session per thread, then for each thread there is a cache file which can contain the same data as the other sessions. Am I correct? Having only one session, there is only one cache file with all the data and the queries are faster. Less queries to the database. Do you know if the sessions connected? I did a test and it seems that they are. I query in assetBuild in one session and I created a task using as parent the assetbuild from the other session and the task was created. @Martin Pengelly-Phillips: I am interested how are you using the session. Are you creating a new session for each query / commit?

Thanks @Mattias Lagergren for your answer! For us it's quite important because we are planing to use threads in all of our tools. We would like to use at least 1 thread in order to not freeze the UI while it is fetching the data. You mean something like this: from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool as ThreadPool import ftrack_api from ftrack_api.symbol import Symbol session = ftrack_api.Session() def check_keys(entity): for key in entity.keys(): if isinstance(entity[key], Symbol): print entity, ': ', key def check_children(entity_id): entity = session.get('TypedContext', entity_id) if 'children' in entity.keys(): for child in entity['children']: check_keys(entity=child) check_children(entity_id=child['id']) def main(): projects = session.query("Project").all() projects_id = [project["id"] for project in projects] pool = ThreadPool() pool.map(check_children, projects_id) if __name__ == "__main__": main() It still doesn't work. In the thread most of the time session.get('TypedContext', entity_id) returns None.

Hi Mattias, ahh... are you going to make it thread safe? The problem is that if it is not specified when the session is created to not auto-populate, then it should never return a Symbol (NOT SET) value. Creating a session per thread works as expected. But it doesn't help us as the sessions are not connected.

Hi Ftrack Team, we would like to use the ftrack session in threads, but, unfortunately, it seems that ftrack_api is not thread safe. When we are using the session in multiple threads the return of the attribute value of the entities is a Symbol (NOT SET). Please find below a script where we were able to reproduce the issue: from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool as ThreadPool import ftrack_api from ftrack_api.symbol import Symbol session = ftrack_api.Session() def check_keys(entity): for key in entity.keys(): if isinstance(entity[key], Symbol): print entity, ': ', key def check_children(entity): if 'children' in entity.keys(): for child in entity['children']: check_keys(entity=child) check_children(entity=child) def main(): projects = session.query("Project").all() pool = ThreadPool() pool.map(check_children, projects) if __name__ == "__main__": main() ftrack_api version: 1.3.2 ftrack server version: 3.5.6

Hi @Mattias Lagergren, thanks for the thoughts. Both other ways have downsides. The Ftrack notification system is really nice and using it for custom notifications will be great.

Hi all, is it possible to send custom notifications via ftrack_api? We are automating a lot with actions. But this creates also a lot of confusion. We need to communicate better to the users. We are using the pop up messages, but these are displayed only for 5 seconds. Sometimes the user is missing them, sometimes the message is going away before he/she finishes reading it. Sending notifications to the user will help a lot in understanding what is happening.

Thanks @Mattias Lagergren for the feedback. We will try with text type instead of number.

Hi all, production would like to manage the resources in Ftrack. would it be possible: to have more then 2 decimals (e.g. for excange rates EUR-USD 1,196095) to have a dot as punctuation for costs (e.g. 1.000.000,00) and at the same time having long numbers without punctuation (e.g. frame in 1001) Cheers!

Hi Ftrack Team, we would like a way to subscribe/unsubscribe (or follow/unfollow) a Ftrack object (like shot/asset/etc). Also we would like to be able to subscribe/unsubscribe other users to it. The current issue which we have right not in the production is that we don't have a way for the coordinators to split the shots between them and follow the activity on specific shots/asset builds/etc.

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Hello guys, I would like to ask you if there is any progress in adding checklists/todo's. We are trying to find a workaround for subtasks and this procedure I think could work. Please have a look at this topic too: http://forum.ftrack.com/index.php?/topic/315-subtask/ Thanks, Remus

Hi Bjoern, thank you for your support! This is great! Kind regards, Remus

Hello, System Settings -> Workflow -> Types - in this moment isn't any way of sorting; If there are more then 50 types, it's very difficult to find what you are looking. It wolud be great if we could sort after Color or Name. Also System Settings -> Workflow -> Status Types - in this moment isn't any way of sorting; It wolud be great if we could sort after Color, Name or Corresponds to. Thanks, Remus