hi guys,

that would certainly suite our workflow too. we are manually copying these to a 
global location, but the way paul describes the idea seems pretty solid for the 
way we would see it working too ...

ben

On 23/11/11 14:35, Paul Raeburn wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I would think that if there was an existing sub-dir in the NUKE path then it 
> would be available to all users, but if the user had their own identically 
> named sub-dir then it would come up as [user] .  Meaning that you would 
> respect the NUKE_PATH order of loading as to where was looked for first.
> 
> 
> So you would still have to manually make the sub-dir  
> /server/nuke/config/ToolSets/myShow, but after that if a user makes 
> myShow/imatool.py it would go to the server location, not make a new myShow 
> in their ~/.nuke.  
> 
> Would that make sense?
> 
> 
> On 21/11/2011, at 10:52 PM, Peter Crossley wrote:
> 
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Yes, currently all Toolsets get saved in the .nuke directory and must be 
>> manually copied to a shared location if you'd like them to be made available 
>> to ther users. I guess it would be possible to add a preference for Toolset 
>> save location, but this could be have a potential for problems if a user 
>> forgets that they have this option set and accidentally polutes a shared 
>> location with all their personal toolsets ...
>>
>> How would you like this to work? Is it literally just being able to override 
>> the default location?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter.
>>
>> On 20/11/2011 20:13, Paul Raeburn wrote:
>>> I'm trying to work out how to allow users to save toolsets for other people 
>>> to pick up.  By default when you use the Create function, they get saved in 
>>> your ~/.nuke/ToolSets directory.  If you make a toolsets directory in the 
>>> nukepath elsewhere the menu items show up for everybody, which is great, 
>>> but I would like users to be able to be able to save a snippet for other 
>>> people to be able to grab.
>>>
>>> I have tried making a sub dir in the communal nuke path location of 
>>> ToolSets/stuff and then creating a stuff/test toolset, but I get the an 
>>> additional "[user] stuff" menu item and it still gets saved in mu 
>>> ~/.nuke/ToolSets
>>>
>>> Is this just not possible, do you have to manually copy to make communal 
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