Would be great to have a job right click option to resume failed tasks, on multiple job selection. Sometimes we get temporary issues, most recently our update to RC6 crashed all max renders with this exception:
Error: Initialize: Error: AttributeError : 'MaxPlugin' object has no attribute 'IsRunningAsService' (Python.Runtime.PythonException)
File "none", line 66, in InitializeProcess
This resulted in thousands of failed tasks in 100+ jobs, which now have to be resumed one by one manually. So a shared right click option for jobs would be great.
We are improving the right-click behavior for Deadline 8 so that all right-click options are shown, regardless of the job state, and only the jobs that meet the necessary criteria are affected. However, I think we’ll need to do more in this case, because the Resume Failed Job option only resumes jobs that are in the failed state, and doesn’t handle the case where the job hasn’t failed, but some tasks have. We’ll add this to the todo list.