[deadline 7.2] Default monitor user's settings

Deadline
1

Hello,

I’m trying to change the default viewer settings of all our existing and future users.

I can’t find where this info is stored.

Cheers,
Pierre

2

Is this what you were looking for? docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … ure-access

3

Hello,

thx for your answer panze.

Nope I’m looking for the viewer settings.

I can control those settings user by user (http://docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/products/deadline/7.2/1_User%20Manual/manual/user-settings.html?highlight=viewer#image-viewers), but I would like to be able to change this for all of our users.

Cheers,
Pïerre

4

Ah, sorry. Misunderstood what you were looking for. But that would be actually nice to know.

For now I’ve used a script I made that loads selected render output as sequence to DJV. But would be nice to be able to collectively set default viewer for single images as well.

5

For others, this info is saved in the Monitor Settings ini file.

Lin/Mac: “~/.config/Thinkbox/”,
Windows: “%appdata%/Thinkbox/”

The sections for it are these:

CustomViewerExecutable1=
CustomViewerExecutable2=
CustomViewerExecutable3=
CustomViewerArguments1=\"{FRAME}\"
CustomViewerArguments2=\"{FRAME}\"
CustomViewerArguments3=\"{FRAME}\"
CustomViewerName1=
CustomViewerName2=
CustomViewerName3=
CustomViewerHandlesChunkedTasks1=false
CustomViewerHandlesChunkedTasks2=false
CustomViewerHandlesChunkedTasks3=false

Note however that this is the file that we store the binary-encoded layout of the Monitor in, so copying it around is going to reset people’s layouts.

6

Hello,

There is another line interesting in the monitor settings .ini : PreferredViewer

My little contribution to this subject, the script I wrote for our linux users to change their settings so they would have a sequence rv viewer as default viewer :

[code]#!/bin/sh
settingsFile=~/.config/Thinkbox/Deadline\ Monitor\ 7.ini
settingsFileBackup="$settingsFile-$(date +"%F-%Hh%Mm")"
echo “Backup settings file is $settingsFileBackup”
cp “$settingsFile” “$settingsFileBackup”

echo “Before modifications :”
cat “$settingsFile” | grep Viewer

sed -i.bak ‘s/^CustomViewerArguments1=./CustomViewerArguments1=\"{SEQ#}\"/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak 's/^CustomViewerArguments2=./CustomViewerArguments2=\"{FRAME}\"/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak ‘s/^CustomViewerArguments3=./CustomViewerArguments3=/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak 's/^CustomViewerExecutable1=./CustomViewerExecutable1=PATH_TO_RV_LAUNCHER’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak ‘s/^CustomViewerExecutable2=./CustomViewerExecutable2=PATH_TO_RV_LAUNCHER’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak 's/^CustomViewerExecutable3=./CustomViewerExecutable3=/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak ‘s/^CustomViewerHandlesChunkedTasks1=./CustomViewerHandlesChunkedTasks1=false/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak 's/^CustomViewerHandlesChunkedTasks2=./CustomViewerHandlesChunkedTasks2=false/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak ‘s/^CustomViewerHandlesChunkedTasks3=./CustomViewerHandlesChunkedTasks3=false/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak 's/^CustomViewerName1=./CustomViewerName1=rv sequence/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak ‘s/^CustomViewerName2=./CustomViewerName2=rv frame/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak 's/^CustomViewerName3=./CustomViewerName3=/’ “$settingsFile”
sed -i.bak ‘s/^PreferredViewer=.*/PreferredViewer=1/’ “$settingsFile”
rm “$settingsFile”.bak

echo “After modifications :”
cat “$settingsFile” | grep Viewer

[/code]

Obviously you’d have to replace PATH_TO_RV_LAUNCHER.

Cheers,
Pierre

7

Sweet! Thanks for the contribution pierre!

I dump these sorts of handy files in our Github repository for examples. Not sure if you’re familiar with Git, but feel free to open up a pull request and I’ll merge it in. Otherwise, I can add it for you.

Probably best to stash it here:
github.com/ThinkboxSoftware/Dea … ster/Tools

8

Go it.

Cheers,
Pierre

9

Noted! I’ll try and find some time. I want to add a handy readme and things before merging it in.

Also, had a chat with the higher ups. When we merge it in, it will be owned by Thinkbox. I’m assuming that’s okay, I just want to be all legally explicit.

10

No problem, it’s only a little something.

11

Hi Edwin,

I’ve tried changing this from the monitor and in the ‘Deadline Monitor 10.ini’ file, whenever I launch the monitor though it overwrites it. No matter what I try I can’t change the value that is already in there. It’s honestly driving me up the wall having to change it each time I load the monitor!