Pipeline Tools Default Values

Deadline
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Hi!

One thing we really dislike about the new pipeline tools is that we have to re-set all values each and every time we submit a render. For example in Nuke we have to enable Draft and create new NIM version every time. Is there some way to change the defaults so it’s always on? Artists keep on forgetting to enable this…
[Edit] It looks like the submitter remembers the settings when submitting the same scene. But after a version up artists have to re-enable Draft and NIM. Maybe this can be fixed?

Before the pipeline tools we modified the submission plugins of our tools, but I don’t know how to do this with the new pipeline tools.

And while we’re talking about NIM: when changing the task they’re working on, artists always have to remember to update the NIM fields accordingly in the pipeline tools. Why? Every information can be pulled from the scene they’re working on?

The same goes for all our tools for which we wan’t to use the pipeline tools, Houdini, Maya, …
All of this is very error prone, user unfriendly and leads to a lot of frustration in bigger productions.

Thanks!

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Awesome support as usual, not sure why I even bother to report things here. I guess we will try to fix this ourselves once again… thanks!

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Hey man, have a look at Deadlinerepository\submission\Integration\Main.

From the Maya submitter for instance, it looks like a call is made to IntegrationUIStandAlone.py. Hopefully this is in the ballpark of what you need to tweak.

We don’t use any of those tools, so I don’t have any first-hand knowledge of how they integrate.