Connect

Connect is the ftrack desktop GUI application enabling DCC application launch and publishing. Connect locates the Framework plugins, and together with the Application launcher plugin, enables discovery and launch of DCC applications.

The Framework modules are connect plugins, which means that need to implement a launch hook containing the logic to discover and launch the DCC application.

Application launcher

The Application launcher is a Connect plugin responsible for discovery and launch of DCC applications.

The application launcher reads its JSON configuration files and performs discovery of DCC applications.

The tutorial part of this documentation shows an example on how to modify the configuration.

For more information on how the application launcher works, please refer to the ftrack Application Launcher documentation.

Connect Package

The Connect package is a build of Connect, shipped as an installer, available for each major operating system platform.