[posted to rush.general]
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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Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed)
Seriss Corporation
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