Disable auto time out on a job?

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I have a global auto time out set in the repository which would kick in after 50% of the job’s tasks been completed. It’s purpose is mainly for Maya render jobs, but the problem I ran into is that this gets applied to everything including Houdini sims and script jobs which timing can vary a lot.

Is there a way to disable it on a job by job basis? I tried overriding the Max Task Render Time however the auto time out still kicked in.

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Well, if it’s only maya job then I’d probably make an OnJobSubmitted event script where

        if not job.JobPlugin in ["MayaBatch", "MayaCmd"]:
            print "Skipping. Not Maya job."
            return
       else:
            job.JobEnableAutoTimeout = True
            RepositoryUtils.SaveJob(job)
            print "Job Auto Timeout activated."

On repository settings --> Job Settings, “Enforce an automatic Job timeout for all” leave that one unticked.
https://docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/products/deadline/10.0/1_User%20Manual/manual/repository-config.html#job-scheduling

Here’s Edvins example of timeout event https://github.com/ThinkboxSoftware/Deadline/tree/master/Custom/events/SetJobTimeout

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Good idea. Thank you.