Delivering To Related sObjects

Delivering Files to a Process

TACTIC's digital asset management features now include the ability to deliver checkins to another process. This provides additional flexibility for what happens to an asset once it has gone through a certain process. This feature is currently only configurable by editing a pipeline's XML definition. A 'to_expression' attribute has been added to allow this.

In the example below, a pipeline which has the single process 'animation' is set up to deliver to any sObject of the sType 'game/asset'.

<pipeline>
  <process name="Animation" task_pipeline="game/Animation"/>
  <connect from="Animation" to="output" to_expression="@SOBJECT(game/asset)])"/>
</pipeline>

The result of this is that any sObjects of sType 'game/asset' will now show as an option to 'deliver to' in the check-in widget UI. In this example, an asset called 'test' is being delivered to, this delivery being the final output of the animation process.

Receiving Files

Similar to delivering files, a 'from_expression' can also be used in a process to allow the process to get files from another process. This allows use of the 'received' tab in the check-in widget.