Add a custom tool the the ftrack menu within Maya

In this section we demonstrate how to add your own studio tool to the Maya plug-in, which in this case updates the status of the task you have launched to “In progress”. We add its menu item to the ftrack menu in userSetup.py:

mypipeline/ftrack-connect-pipeline-maya/resource/scripts/userSetup.py

..

def initialise():

    ..

    maya_utils.init_maya()

    cmds.menuItem(
        parent=ftrack_menu,
        label='In Progress',
        command=(functools.partial(maya_utils.set_task_status, 'in progress', session, logger))
    )

    maya_utils.scene_open(session, logger)

In DCC custom_commands.py, we add the corresponding set_task_status function:

mypipeline/ftrack-connect-pipeline-maya/source/ftrack_connect_pipeline_maya/utils/custom_commands.py

def set_task_status(status_name, session, logger, unused_arg=None):
    '''Change the status of the launched task to *status*'''
    task = session.query(
        'Task where id={}'.format(os.environ['FTRACK_CONTEXTID'])
    ).one()
    status = session.query('Status where name="{}"'.format(status_name)).one()
    logger.info(
        'Changing status of task {} to {}'.format(task['name'], status_name)
    )
    task['status'] = status
    session.commit()