Hi,
In the new Deadline 8 Monitor I can’t access the scripts anymore through the right click menu when I’ve got multiple jobs selected. This was very useful for offsetting priorities on a collection of jobs. Is this a bug or should I be doing this in a different way now?
Thanks
Nick
Hi,
We made some enhancements in Deadline 8 to the way script menus are configured for multiple job selection. See my screen-grab which should help explain how to re-enable a particular script for multi-select. “Configure Script Menus…” is under “Tools” as Super-User. I’m going to improve our docs here to help others in the future, as we could provide a bit more details.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the quick response, I wondered if it was something like that, I looked in the docs but couldn’t see anything. I’d say that the priority offset script would be something that should be on as default for multiselect from our point of view.
Nick
FYI. The docs have been updated now as well:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … ript-menus
Thanks Mike, I’ve also noticed that the priorities don’t change now until you’ve closed the window and you can no longer change the selection when you’ve got the window open. It was very useful to be able to quickly re-arrange priorities on the farm without having to keep closing the window, changing your selection and then re-open the window.
Nick
Ah, I actually changed this between v7 and v8 coz I thought users would prefer this way of working and not accidentally change the wrong jobs. Guess not! I’ll revert that change in our internal version then for the next release. You can easily fix this yourself today.
If you open up the script: “<your_repo>/scripts/Jobs/PriorityOffset.py” and change this line:
scriptDialog.ShowDialog( True )to be False:
scriptDialog.ShowDialog( False )Save the file and try again.
Great thnaks, nice to know it’s an easy fix. We have it set to share slaves across jobs when they’re set to the same priority so it’s useful to be able to easily offset these when someone puts 30 on at the default…!
Nick