Custom Action Feedback

[natasha]

I have written a custom action to upload a reference movie clip to a shot in ftrack. 
Once the action is launched, it creates a movie from images on disk and then uploads this movie as an attachment to the shot. 
After the action is launched, the movie creation and upload runs asynchronously. 

What's the best way to give feedback to the user regarding the asynchronous processes? I can output messages to the terminal, but an artist may not look at their terminal or even have it open.

How can I do I give feedback in the ftrack web UI? 

Thanks,
Natasha

[Mattias Lagergren]

Hi Natasha,

I would recommend creating a job for this. Which api are you using, legacy or ftrack-python-api?

[natasha]

I was just about to comment saying I got it working with ftrack jobs. 

In case anyone else comes looking for the same thing, I referenced these:
https://bitbucket.org/snippets/ftrack/nKoB#file-note_on_multiple_entities_action.py
https://bitbucket.org/tokejepsen/ftrack-hooks/src/8c822233a35dd0be71194b4ada9064fbf8839eb4/delivery.py?fileviewer=file-view-default#delivery.py-58

[tokejepsen]

This might be an even better example; https://bitbucket.org/tokejepsen/ftrack-hooks/src/b636c49593d667b44cd25c3db404ebfe1393b141/collect_assets.py?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default

[tokejepsen]

Also this is useful; 

 

[jerome]

I have been using a job to wrap a long running action and it is quite nice.

But jobs seems a bit limited with legacy API, is there a way to specify:

• a progress value 
• a custom message (in addition to the title)

Or should we switch to new API for this ?

Cheers,