Get user name for submission script

Deadline
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I’ve playing around with building a custom submission script for submitting RPManager scenes to deadline for scripted submission on the farm.



So far everything is working well, except I need to set the name of the user when RPM does it’s “remote” submission.



What I need to do is insert the user name on the submitting end into the max script file (which I create in the deadline submission script) so it is available on the remote machine.



Now I’ve probably just skipped over it, but is there a function in deadline that will return the name of the current user??



Cheers

Shane

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Hi Shane,



You can use deadlinecommandbg with the argument GetCurrentUserName.



Once you run that the output will be saved to

C:\Deadline\temp\dsubmitoutput.txt. The exit code will also be written

to C:\Deadline\temp\dsubmitexitcode.txt if you want to make sure the

command executed correctly.



Cheers,

David Bertouille


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Yep!! That’s what I worked out as well!



Actually, I can do you one better:



Set oShell = CreateObject( “WScript.Shell” )

set oExec = oShell.Exec (“C:\Deadline\bin\DeadlineCommand.exe GetCurrentUserName”)

'scriptFile.WriteLine “deadlineUser = “”” & (StringUtils.trim(oExec.StdOut.ReadAll())) & “”""

scriptFile.WriteLine "ShellLaunch ““C:\Deadline\bin\DeadlineCommand.exe”” ““ChangeUser " & (StringUtils.trim(oExec.StdOut.ReadAll())) & “”””



This will basically get the outout directly from the standard out…but it needs to be trimmed as it has a newline appended to the end