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feature request: priority delta

We currently have a single priority setting. It would be great if there was an additional “priority delta” setting, defaulting to 0.

We could then hook it into a system we used to have with our previous tool that would allow production to tweak priorities per show / per shot from a central management interface (say, “this shot is due tonight, set to tier #1” -> would add a priority delta of 30, etc).

With the current single setting, we can’t separate the artist set ‘starting’ priority from the production adjustments in a clean way.

Hey Laszlo,

Would you be able to store the original priority setting in an Extra Info field? It seems like the main motivation behind this feature request is to simply know what the original priority for the job was before adjusting it.

Cheers,
Ryan

Not entirely, we basically have 2 main branches setting priorities: artists/wranglers and production. With only a single priority value, they keep fighting each other. With 2, we could separate the responsibilities.
While we can come up with an awkward way of handling it via extra info attributes (that’s our current plan), i was hoping for a clear solution. Maybe your plans to expose the queuing algorithm in deadline8 would also work for this, since then we could alter the actual priority vs what’s show in the GUI live during the dequeing process. Basically thats our main issue, the shown priority vs the actual priority has to differ, otherwise there will be confusion as to WHY certain things are set the way they are. Was it modified by a wrangler? A sup? A production person? Etc.

Just a heads up that this has currently been pushed back to Deadline 9 so that we can focus on improving the Monitor’s performance for Deadline 8. That being said, we are also trying to speed up our development cycles so that major releases happen faster than they have in the past, which means that version 9 isn’t as far away as it sounds.

For now, using the extra info fields is probably the way to go.

Cheers,
Ryan

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