Adding Custom columns to Monitor Deadline 6.0

Deadline
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I found a thread that asked this very question but it was from 2 years ago and I couldn’t translate the info to 6.0. Basically I’ve added 2 custom boxes to the Modo submit window (Show Name & Show Phase). I’d like to add those columns to the Monitor display but I’m unsure where that code lives.

Thanks!

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Bumping, hoping to catch one of the devs attention.

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Hey James,

We don’t have a way of adding columns to the Deadline Monitor – that’s all compiled code. The only thing we have exposed for anything like this is the ExtraInfo0-9 properties of Jobs, which we already have columns for in the Monitor and are intended for use in this kind of situation. If your Show Name/Show Phase stored their info in those properties, they would show up in the Monitor. You can also rename the ExtraInfo0-9 columns through the Repository Options (Under ‘Job Settings’ -> ‘Extra Properties’).

Hope this helps!

  • Jon
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Hi Jon, thanks for the response.

Yes, I got to that point where I figured out that I could name the ExtraInfo attributes to whatever name I wanted. My stumbling block now has been how to get my information from the Job file into those attributes so that they show up in the Monitor. I was able to add extra boxes to the modo submission dialog window. I know how to get information into the submission window, but I can’t get it to show up in the Monitor.

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Ah, I see. In that case, you should just need to set the ExtraInfo fields when the submitter creates the Job File (see: thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … fo_Options).

Basically, you’ll have to add a few lines to this section of code:

# Create job info file.
jobInfoFilename = Path.Combine( GetDeadlineTempPath(), "modo_job_info.job" )
writer = StreamWriter( jobInfoFilename, False, Encoding.Unicode )
writer.WriteLine( "Plugin=Modo" )
writer.WriteLine( "Name=%s" % jobName )
writer.WriteLine( "Comment=%s" % scriptDialog.GetValue( "CommentBox" ) )
writer.WriteLine( "Department=%s" % scriptDialog.GetValue( "DepartmentBox" ) )
[...]

Your lines would look something like this (I’m assuming your controls are named ‘ShowNameBox’ and ‘ShowPhaseBox’):

writer.WriteLine( "ExtraInfo0=%s" % scriptDialog.GetValue( "ShowNameBox" ) )
writer.WriteLine( "ExtraInfo1=%s" % scriptDialog.GetValue( "ShowPhaseBox" ) )

I should also mention that our Shotgun integration actually makes use of ExtraInfo0 through ExtraInfo5, so if you’re using Shotgun at all, you might want to start at ExtraInfo6 instead of 0 to avoid conflicts. Let me know if this all makes sense to you!

Cheers,

  • Jon
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Again, awesome! And thanks for the heads up about Shotgun. We are looking into that so I’ll do as you suggested. I’ll give this a go and let you know if I have any issues.

Thanks!

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Worked like a charm. You guys rock!