Selected type is always Task

[lloydwood]

Hello,

I'm new to Ftrack and I'm trying to write an action that displays info about what is selected (type, name, id etc). Mainly this is for us developers because I couldn't see a way to see the id of an object on the web front end.

The problem I'm having is that whatever I select returns task as the entityType, whether it is a task or not. If you then query the session with the correct type and the entityId, you get a result otherwise you get None. My workaround for this would be to query every type until I got a result but in order to that I need a list of object types. How can I get that?

Thanks,

Dan

[Mattias Lagergren]

Hi Dan, the task is an legacy style notation for what we in the current API have as TypedContext.

To fetch a Task, Shot, Sequence, Folder, Milestone etc.. that are sub-types of the TypedContext you can use:

session.query('TypedContext where id is "{0}"'.format(entity_id)').one()

 

[lloydwood]

Ah. Ok. Cool. That makes more sense now. Thanks!