From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: saved Forms
   Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:29:00 -0500
Msg# 1683
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Gary Jaeger wrote:
> is it possible to have the "Save this Form" go to a central location,
> say a server? so that all artists have access to the same saved submit
> forms? or some other way of sharing these? other than exporting them one
> at a time.

	You have to watch out for "sharing" submit forms, since one person
	might change eg. the "Maya Flags", and save it, causing the next
	user to load that form not to realize that critical field was changed,
	and to have everything go haywire.

	The logic for 'the last form saved' is all in the submit script,
	so you can change it around if you want. The "$G::lastsubmit" variable
	contains that path to where that info is saved. Normally it is saved to
	the user's own home directory (unix), or in the case of windows,
	into the user's c:\temp directory.

	To have that data be global, on a server somewhere, you'd have to
	lock the data somehow, since each time someone submits, the
	'last saved' info is changed.

	Maybe what you want is to have some 'standard form' that gets merged
	in with the user's "last" data, so that all settings except maybe
	Cpus: and Scene File: get pulled in from a master template?

	You can do this by having a master file for each submit form on the
	server, and then when the script is run, code you add to the script
	merges that 'read only' template with the user's last saved data,
	preserving only the few fields you want from the user's last submission
	that is unique to them, such as their last submitted scene file and
	frame range, or some such.

	If you think that would help, I can give you some coding leads
	on how to do that.


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