Extending the Fusion Submitter and Sanity Checks

Deadline
1

I’ve got a question regarding Deadline’s Custom Sanity Checks and the Fusion Submitter.

We have several Limit Groups in place to manage floating license. I’d like write some code that auto-populates the “limits” submitter field based on information gleaned from the comp. Deadline provides a “CustomSanityChecks.eyeonscript” to allow for extending submissions, however, just at quick glance, it seems this is really just to alert the user via the “message” return value. I can set other vars in this file and pass them back to the “SubmitToDeadline.eyeonscript” file but I then need to do some script modifications in the “SubmitToDeadline.eyeonscript” file which seems to negate the use of the “CustomSanityChecks.eyeonscript” script file.

Are there any recommendations for auto-populating the SubmitToDeadline dialog? Should I just bite the bullet and modify the SubmitToDeadline.eyescript?

2

Here is an old bit of code from the CustomSanityChecks.eyeonscript file that we used to use in production for the RSMB plugin. It would automatically append the df_dfmb limit group to the DEADLINE_LimitGroups property so that the user wouldn’t have to worry about it:

	rsmbAttrs = fusion:GetRegAttrs("REVisionEffects.RSMotionBlur3")
	if not (rsmbAttrs == nil) then
		rsmb_regID = rsmbAttrs.REGS_ID
		local i = nil
		for i, v in comp:GetToolList() do
			if string.find( v:GetID(), rsmb_regID ) ~= nil then
				print( "Detected RSMotionBlur3 tool, submitting to df_dfmb limit" )
				
				limitGroups = fusion:GetData( "DEADLINE_LimitGroups" )
				if( limitGroups == nil or limitGroups == "" ) then
					limitGroups = "df_dfmb"
				else
					limitGroups = limitGroups .. ",df_dfmb"
				end
				fusion:SetData("DEADLINE_LimitGroups", limitGroups)
				break
			end
		end
	end

Hope this helps!

  • Ryan
3

Ryan,

That’s a terrific help. Thanks a bunch!

it took me a bit to debug why my code wasn’t passing the limit group data from my CustomSanityChecks to the SubmitToDeadline script. Turns out I had this:

defaultLimitGroups = fusion:GetData("DEADLINE_LimitGroups2")

in my SubmitToDeadline.eyeonscript. When it should have been:

defaultLimitGroups = fusion:GetData("DEADLINE_LimitGroups")

Don’t know how that was changed, but after changing it back to “DEADLINE_LimitGroups”, it works great. Thanks for the help.