Send message to user/group

[motionlab]

Hi,

I'm extremely new to the ftrack API, so I'm hoping this will be an easy question for you seasoned veterans.

I'm trying to create a simple script that will send a message/notification to a specific user and/or usergroup. We're simply trying to avoid sending an email, and rely more on ftrack for little things like this.

I've gotten as far as running the sample script here: http://ftrack.rtd.ftrack.com/en/latest/developing/getting_started.html and that works as expected.

 

Cheers,
Daniel

[tokejepsen]

Depending on if you want the project specific usergroups, you can get it through the project; http://ftrack.rtd.ftrack.com/en/latest/developing/api_reference/index.html?highlight=getallocatedgroups#ftrack.Project.getAllocatedGroups

[motionlab]

I'm more having trouble sending messages at all - so maybe lets start with sending a test message to a single user, and then I can build on it from there

Thoughts?

Dan

[tokejepsen]

Not entirely sure you can send a message directly to a user. But I might be wrong, ftrack devs?

You can add a note to different things in Ftrack. For direct messaging we used Slack, and the python api for that.

[motionlab]

Thanks! Yeah I think I'm coming to the same conclusion - I got it working by adding notes to a task, but haven't seen a way to send a message without attaching it to a task.

That's not a big deal though, using a task as the anchor is totally fine. Thanks for your help

Cheers