Hey Ryan, I wanted to find a way to match certain criteria on incoming jobs and then kickoff a script that would basically create another job alongside the original.
We are wanting to have a slate job generated automagically off job submission, we could of course do this simply with a Deadline script but it wouldn't be automatic, the user would have to right click on the job and run said script. Don't want to do the generation on the client side because we would most likely be submitting jobs from a couple different apps.
Thanks,
J
Hey Joe,
There isn’t a mechanism built into Deadline to handle what you’re
looking for in the general sense. We generate slate jobs for fusion
here, but this is controlled by a custom script within the Fusion
submission script. Probably the easiest way to set this up from the
client side for different applications would be to write a
perlscript/batchfile/etc that each submission script executes prior to
submitting the job to Deadline. Then you could simply insert the one or
two lines it takes to call the execute the slate generation script
before the call to submit the Deadline job.
This would limit the amount of work you would have to do on the client
side, and any modifications you would make would be to the separate
slate generation script. Note that many of our client side submission
scripts are just proxy scripts that call a script file in
\your\repository\submission, which also reduces the amount work you
would have to do.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,