What docs to set up a Location?

[Alberto GZ]

What is the recommedation to setup, configure and use a local storage Location, ftrack or ftrack_api?

I see different docs about it. 

http://ftrack.rtd.ftrack.com/en/latest/developing/locations/tutorial.html

http://ftrack-python-api.rtd.ftrack.com/en/latest/locations/tutorial.html

[Milan Kolar]

Depends on what API are you using. The first link is for the old API, while the second one applied to the new one. 

At this point I'd probably just start with the new one and only got to the old if you run into something it can't do.

[Tobi]

Is there any step by step manual for setting up location with the new api yet? I'm looking for some thing like this:

 

The documentation is a great reference.  But due to all the crossreferences it's hard to get an overall impression of all the steps that are actually needed to get locations to work.

A step by step manual for locations using  FTP accessors as some people requested before would also be nice

[Mattias Lagergren]

Unfortunately not, but I agree - lots of api docs but would be good with an easier tutorial. For the actual configuration step, where you let your api session know about the location plugin, this is a good resource: http://ftrack-python-api.rtd.ftrack.com/en/latest/locations/configuring.html#configuring-automatically

[Tim Edelmann]

On 3.6.2016 at 8:50 AM, Mattias Lagergren said:

Unfortunately not, but I agree - lots of api docs but would be good with an easier tutorial. For the actual configuration step, where you let your api session know about the location plugin, this is a good resource: http://ftrack-python-api.rtd.ftrack.com/en/latest/locations/configuring.html#configuring-automatically

Hey again, 

 

for some reason the example given in that resource, is giving me 'no module named id' and I seem to be unable to solve this. I'm sure this must be an easy fix, but I don't get it.. The path-variables have to be correct, since the lines above don't error. Is anybody else having issues with this? We would like to setup a customized structure-plugin, but for now, we're stuck on the first step..

[Mattias Lagergren]

Hi Tim, could you provide a small example script that produces the "no module named id". Try to keep the example small and self-contained.

[Tim Edelmann]

There is a new-api version of a location-plugin which does the setup. This one seems to be working.

 

And about the old api:

I found out, what the problem was. The ftrack-connect-package I use, is a custom build. In this build, the file id.py wasn't packaged (for what ever reason..), which then resulted in the above error-msg.