Note: If you set the workgroups without the prefs file, it is not stable. Depending on the plugins you have installed in your workgroups. Holger Schönberger technical director The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night
_____ From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 10:29 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Setting workgroups via batch file As Luc-Eric said you can call the setenv anywhere in your bat file, but if you want to do it all in one line try this: call "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 SP1\Application\bin\setenv.bat" & start /min cmd /c "%XSI_BINDIR%\xsi.bat -w \\path\to\workgroup1,\\path\to\workgroup2" This kind of command joining can be especially useful if executing system commands from Perl -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Gene Crucean Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 3:15 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Setting workgroups via batch file Hey guys, So I'm trying to set some environment variables via a batch script but this page (http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/EnvVars_EnvironmentVariableReference.htm) doesn't have a workgroup variable to set. I stumbled upon Stephens blog (http://xsisupport.com/2011/11/09/setting-workgroups-at-startup/) which references a data_management.workgroup_appl_path variable but then I'm forced to use the SI command prompt and to be honest I'm not even sure how to call that thing from within a bat file since call "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 SP1\Application\bin\SIShell.bat" doesn't seem to work. I've tried this which works... echo \\path\to\proj\pipeline\extensions\softimage2013\workgroups\Arnold <file:///\\path\to\proj\pipeline\extensions\softimage2013\workgroups\Arnold> > "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Autodesk\Softimage_2013_SP1\Data\workgroups.wkg" echo \\path\to\proj\pipeline\extensions\softimage2013\workgroups\RGH <file:///\\path\to\proj\pipeline\extensions\softimage2013\workgroups\RGH> >> "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Autodesk\Softimage_2013_SP1\Data\workgroups.wkg" echo \\path\to\proj\pipeline\extensions\softimage2013\workgroups\3rdParty <file:///\\path\to\proj\pipeline\extensions\softimage2013\workgroups\3rdParty> >> "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Autodesk\Softimage_2013_SP1\Data\workgroups.wkg" The problem I have is that if we ever change the workgroup paths, on next launch, Soft holds onto those old paths with Kung-Fu Grip even though the paths in the .wkg file are set properly. I can't stand many things in Maya but this is one area it's clearly ahead of Soft. set MAYA_MODULE_PATH=\\path\to\proj\pipeline\extensions\maya2013_5\modules <-- done deal Btw, I know about xsi -w option but I'm not sure how that would work with a .bat file. My setup is like this... File one: call \\path\to\setEnvVars.bat <file:///\\path\to\setEnvVars.bat> start /min cmd /c "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 SP1\Application\bin\XSI.bat" File two: Sets all envvars. File one calls the file that contains the envvars, those get set, then it launches Soft. If I was to use the -w flag, it would have to go on the end of the second line in the first file and not in the envvar's file. So basically, the second line of file one would be something like this: start /min cmd /c "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2013 SP1\Application\bin\XSI.bat -w \\path\to\workgroup1,\\path\to\workgroup2 <file:///\\path\to\workgroup1,\path\to\workgroup2> " Will someone that understands this setup please shed some light on this little golden nugget of my day? -- -Gene
