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

 1..
 2
 3def initialise():
 4
 5    ..
 6
 7    maya_utils.init_maya()
 8
 9    cmds.menuItem(
10        parent=ftrack_menu,
11        label='In Progress',
12        command=(functools.partial(maya_utils.set_task_status, 'in progress', session, logger))
13    )
14
15    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