Is it possible to edit the information the appears in the “Tasks” section of a job?
I understand that Deadline must be using one of these number sets for calling/sending jobs, but I assume not both.
The goal: to display to the user what each task number or frame is rendering.
Currently I send a scene full of Render-To-Texture jobs to deadline, and based on the frame number it will render a specific object in the scene. This has allowed us to collapse a full scene into a single line item in Deadline with a list of tasks for that job.
But if one of the frames stalls/fails, the user has no quick way to determine what that frame is/was.
So I’m hoping to output data to either of these fields (or if necessary and possible, to add another field).
Does anyone know if any of this is do-able, and if so, any pointers?
Thanks!
Unfortunately, this information cannot be changed. The displayed data is pulled directly from the task’s properties, and those properties are used for other things besides display, so changing them in the internal task object would break things.
Cheers,
Thanks Ryan,
I was afraid of that.
I just noticed the “Extra Info” section.
Is it possible to create more than the 10 that are there?
Thanks again for the quick response,
Alexander
The 10 that are there are for displaying in the Monitor columns, and they’re capped at 10.
There is an additional Extra Info Key/Value dictionary that you can use to store additional properties. You can see it in the Extra Info tab in the job properties. You can store as many properties as you want in this dictionary, but they won’t be available for display purposes in the job list in the Monitor.
Cheers,
Is it possible to edit the information the appears in the “Tasks” section of a job?