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	Tue, 30/Sep/2008 10:33 AM
Jamie 102 Posts	Hi Robin, Is there any way possible to submit from file a previous job but use some over rides such as frame range, priority wait-on, uid(which would overwrite the existing settings of the in-smedge gui uid of a job). We've started building some semi-automated python wrappers and this is giving us some more options and flexibility in terms of how Houdini behaves on the smedge farm here. Cheers Jamie PS: Thanks for sorting that ProcessSeq error string detection bug. Will be testing it some more as soon as possible.
	Thu, 02/Oct/2008 10:50 AM
Robin 1138 Posts	Hi Jaime You could do this by having your wrapper script generate a new Job file with the correctly overridden data from the original file, and then use Submit to submit that new Job file. -robin
	Fri, 03/Oct/2008 10:13 AM
Jamie 102 Posts	That can happen but it's not updating the existing job, it's generating a fresh UID which in turn kind of messes with our program since our extended backend is dependant on these UIDs being consistent and having to script up an extra layer / loop is maybe complicating it a bit too much. If it was possible to 'not' generate the uid on the submit -fromfile command and insert/update it as read into the job list from the [amended] test.sj file would be awesome. Is there a uid override for submit.exe? Cheers Jamie Axis
	Fri, 03/Oct/2008 3:43 PM
Robin 1138 Posts	Do you mean that you want to change an existing Job's parameters before it has finished? Or do you want to take a finished Job and make it back to a queued Job? Right now, once a Job has finished, it can never be un-finished again. Resubmitting the Job actually makes a new Job. On the plus side, the Submit script returns the ID of the job it creates, so it should be pretty easy to extract that, if needed. However, I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do, so I'm not sure what the best approach may be. I can certainly change some of this behavior, but please let me know more about what your system is trying to accomplish, so that I can give better help. Thanks -robin
	Sun, 05/Oct/2008 4:05 PM
Robin 1138 Posts	Hi Jamie I misunderstood you post originally, but now I understand. I should be able to add the ability to modify existing Jobs easily enough. I will put this on the feature request list for the next version and post more information when it is available. Thanks -robin
	Mon, 13/Oct/2008 6:16 AM
Jamie 102 Posts	Nice one Robin. Look forward to that one. Cheers

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