Note on multiple entities action

The action Note on multiple entities will go through your selection and create a note for each of the items.

Using the action

Navigate to a project in the web interface and select a few items in the spreadsheet and select Actions from the context menu. Click on Write notes and add your text and optionally select a note category.

Notes created are copies, and any replies will only show up on one of the notes.

Available on

Project
Object (Folder, Shot, Task, etc.)
Version

Running the action

Install the ftrack-action-handler:

pip install git+https://bitbucket.org/ftrack/ftrack-action-handler.git

Tip

You can use virtualenv or similar solutions to avoid installing packages into your system's Python environment.

Start the listener from the terminal using the following command:

python note_on_multiple_entities_action.py

If you wish to see debugging information, set the verbosity level by appending -v debug to the command.

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For more information in our documentation:

note_on_multiple_entities_action.py

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      # :coding: utf-8
# :copyright: Copyright (c) 2015 ftrack

import logging
import threading
import sys
import argparse
import json

import ftrack_api

from ftrack_action_handler.action import BaseAction


def async(fn):
    '''Run *fn* asynchronously.'''
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        thread = threading.Thread(target=fn, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)
        thread.start()
    return wrapper


class NoteOnMultipleEntitiesAction(BaseAction):
    '''Action to write note on multiple entities.'''

    #: Action identifier.
    identifier = 'note-on-multiple-entities'

    #: Action label.
    label = 'Write notes'

    @async
    def create_notes(self, entities, text, category_id, source):
        '''Create notes on *entities*.'''

        # Create new session as sessions are not garantueed to be thread-safe.
        session = ftrack_api.Session(
            auto_connect_event_hub=False, plugin_paths=[]
        )

        category = session.get('NoteCategory', category_id)
        user = session.query(
            'User where username is "{0}"'.format(source['user']['username'])
        ).one()

        logging.info('Creating notes on {0} entities'.format(len(entities)))

        job = session.create('Job', {
            'user': user,
            'status': 'running',
            'data': json.dumps({
                'description': 'Creating notes on {0} entities'.format(
                    len(entities)
                )
            })
        })

        try:
            session.commit()
        except:
            session.rollback()
            raise

        try:
            for entity_type, entity_id in entities:
                entity = session.get(entity_type, entity_id)
                if category:
                    entity.create_note(
                        text, user, category=category
                    )
                else:
                    entity.create_note(text, user)
        except Exception:
            session.rollback()

            job['status'] = 'failed'

            try:
                session.commit()
            except:
                session.rollback()
            raise

        job['status'] = 'done'

        try:
            session.commit()
        except:
            session.rollback()
            raise

    def discover(self, session, entities, event):
        '''Return true if the action is discoverable.

        Action is discoverable if all entities have a notes relationship and
        at least one entity is selected.

        '''
        return (
            entities and
            all([
                entity_type in session.types and
                'notes' in session.types[entity_type].attributes.keys()
                for entity_type, entity_id in entities
            ])
        )

    def launch(self, session, entities, event):
        '''Callback method for action.'''
        self.logger.info(
            u'Launching action with selection {0}'.format(entities)
        )

        data = event['data']
        logging.info(u'Launching action with data: {0}'.format(data))

        if 'values' in data:
            text = data['values'].get('note_text')
            category_id = data['values'].get('note_category')
            self.create_notes(entities, text, category_id, event['source'])

        return {
            'success': True,
            'message': 'Started creating notes'
        }

    def interface(self, session, entities, event):
        '''Return interface.'''
        values = event['data'].get('values', {})

        if not values:
            options = [
                {'label': category['name'], 'value': category['id']}
                for category in session.query(
                    'select name, id from NoteCategory'
                )
            ]
            options.insert(0, {'label': 'Default', 'value': 'auto'})
            return [
                {
                    'value': '## Writing note on **{0}** items. ##'.format(
                        len(entities)
                    ),
                    'type': 'label'
                }, {
                    'label': 'Content',
                    'name': 'note_text',
                    'value': '',
                    'type': 'textarea'
                }, {
                    'label': 'Note category',
                    'type': 'enumerator',
                    'name': 'note_category',
                    'value': 'auto',
                    'data': options
                }
            ]


def register(session, **kw):
    '''Register plugin. Called when used as an plugin.'''
    # Validate that session is an instance of ftrack_api.Session. If not,
    # assume that register is being called from an old or incompatible API and
    # return without doing anything.
    if not isinstance(session, ftrack_api.session.Session):
        return

    action_handler = NoteOnMultipleEntitiesAction(session)
    action_handler.register()


def main(arguments=None):
    '''Set up logging and register action.'''
    if arguments is None:
        arguments = []

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    # Allow setting of logging level from arguments.
    loggingLevels = {}
    for level in (
        logging.NOTSET, logging.DEBUG, logging.INFO, logging.WARNING,
        logging.ERROR, logging.CRITICAL
    ):
        loggingLevels[logging.getLevelName(level).lower()] = level

    parser.add_argument(
        '-v', '--verbosity',
        help='Set the logging output verbosity.',
        choices=loggingLevels.keys(),
        default='info'
    )
    namespace = parser.parse_args(arguments)

    # Set up basic logging.
    logging.basicConfig(level=loggingLevels[namespace.verbosity])

    session = ftrack_api.Session()
    register(session)

    # Wait for events.
    logging.info(
        'Registered actions and listening for events. Use Ctrl-C to abort.'
    )
    session.event_hub.wait()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    raise SystemExit(main(sys.argv[1:]))

    

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