Hi,
Feature Request 
I got asked this morning why in the monitor we have a “Explore Output” right-click button, but not a “Explore Input” button!
I thought this would be most useful! Doesn’t matter if the “input” data file(s) are submitted with the job or referenced elsewhere…its just the idea of being able to quickly explore to these location(s)
Thanks,
Mike
Hey Mike,
You can use the right-click menu to explore the Auxiliary Files folder, which is where file that are submitted with the job are stored.
Deadline currently doesn’t keep track of files that are not submitted with the job, so at this time we couldn’t add a menu item to show them. The plugin info data will likely have the path to the scene file if the scene isn’t submitted with the job, but the Deadline core just views those as arbitrary key value pairs (it’s up to the Deadline plugin to interpret them).
The Explore Output works by having the submitter specify the OutputDirectory# and/or OutputFileName# keys in the job info file. I guess we could add support for InputFileName# keys, but it would be up to each submitter to populate them.
Cheers,
- Ryan
Exactly. I was thinking the same thing: “InputFileName#” key/value pairs.
Then this feature could be added without breaking the monitor and it just checks for the existence of these settings, in much the same way, the current “OuytputDirectory#” pairs work.
I would prefer this, than I guess the alternative…of writing a custom py script which checks for them by plugin type, so it knows what type of input file path setting to look for!
Just an idea 
Thanks,
Mike
Cool. We’ll throw it on the wish list.