Publish to specified location

[tomas]

Hi all,

I'm new in ftrack and I changed a location structure and I have a question: 

Is any way to get application from which is published? 
e.g. I store rendered images from maya in: prefix\test_project\shots\sequence\test_050\render\maya\ 
But when I render from nuke I need this: prefix\test_project\shots\sequence\test_050\render\final\

Is it any way to solve it?

I use Legacy API.

Thanks for every ideas! Tomas

[Mattias Lagergren]

Hi Tomas, if you've built your own location structure plugin that should be possible. You will however need to detect somehow what application the location is used in - this can be done in a number of ways but it is not something that we provide from our side.

[tomas]

thanks Mattias,

 

and what is the best way to solve it? Can you please give me some hints?

[Mattias Lagergren]

Hi Tomas,

I'm not sure what the best way is and may depend on how you launch your applications. If they are launched through ftrack Connect you will have the FTRACK_CONNECT_EVENT that can be decoded and used to detect the host application.

import json
import base64

application = 'other'

try:
	identifier = json.loads(
		base64.b64decode(os.environ['FTRACK_CONNECT_EVENT'])
	)
except:
	# Could not decode event.
	pass
else:
	if 'nuke' in identifier:
		application = 'nuke'
	elif:
		...

Another possibility is to try and get the ftrack connector name:

import ftrack_connect.connector

connector = ftrack_connect.connector.Connector.__subclasses__()[0]

# Should be nuke, maya or max.
connector.getConnectorName()

Or, if launched outside of Connect or if you want to be agnostic to launch method I guess there are other best practices for detecting the application host; importing modules, looking at environment variables, etc.

[tomas]

thaks Mattias