JobFinished Event

Deadline
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Hey, I’m new to deadline, and I need to write a script that should be triggered after a job has completed. I figured it has to do with the events folder and the OnJobFinished function but I can’t seem to get anything as simple as a pop-up message to occur after a job has completed. Can someone tell me what the script should look like (and where it should be) if I wanted to do something like a pop-up after a job is completed? I’ve tried writing a script in the events folder with the DLINIT file and .PY file but I don’t fully understand how that will run after a job has completed. I am not actually trying to get a pop-up message I just want to see how its done to learn some stuff. Here is what I have:

[code]from System.IO import *
from System.Text import *

from Deadline.Events import *
from Deadline.Scripting import *
from Deadline.Plugins import *

######################################################################

This is the function that Deadline calls to get an instance of the

main DeadlineEventListener class.

######################################################################
def GetDeadlineEventListener():
return MyEvent()

######################################################################

This is the main DeadlineEventListener class for MyEvent.

######################################################################
class MyEvent (DeadlineEventListener):

def OnJobFinished( self, job ):
	
	if job.JobPlugin == "Rhino":
		scriptDialog.ShowMessageBox( "DONE", "Popup" )[/code]

Thanks very much!

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Hi,
Take a look at the online docs, very informative on how the plugin system works:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … teventsdk/
I wouldn’t test using a pop-up dialog as it will fire on all your rendernodes and then it will need pressing on all your mahcines!
Better to use a:

LogInfo( "Testing..." )

type of message as documented here:

thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … l_Funtions

void LogInfo( string Message ) Prints an info message to the log. void LogWarning( string Message ) Prints a warning message to the log.

HTH,
Mike

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If you’re still having trouble, feel free to zip up your event plugin’s folder and upload it. We could try running it here and figure out why it isn’t triggering.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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The error I get when I create an events folder with the proper files is:

Events plugin ‘MyEvent’ could not be loaded from the repository because: Error executing event plugin script “\tcaup-support.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu\Deadline Repository\events\MyEvent\MyEvent.py”: Python Syntax Error: Could not find file ‘\tcaup-support.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu\Deadline Repository\events\MyEvent\MyEvent.py’. (Microsoft.Scripting.SyntaxErrorException)

Does this mean there is an error with the script? Its a very simple script I am testing with so I don’t see how there would be one. Its virtually the same as the script I posted earlier except with the suggestion to use the log.

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What’s the name of the script file you placed in the MyEvent folder? Is it called MyEvent.py? Like I said, feel free to zip up your event plugin and post it and we’ll take a look! :slight_smile:

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Also, if I may shamelessly plug myself here :smiley: I did a short video tutorial on scripting Deadline Events: blog.duber.cz/technical/scriptin … s-tutorial
hope this helps.