Special automation scripts .NEW .SAVE .DUPLICATE

I want to share a small trick I have learned from this presentation.

It is an undocumented feature of Automation Scripts that will automatically launch a script based on a special naming convention.

For example if you want to run a script each time a ASSET object is saved you just have to create an automation script (without a Launch Point) and call it ASSET.SAVE.

There are just three events that can be used:

• .NEW
• .SAVE
• .DUPLICATE

As an example lets define the a script that sets a default description when an asset is duplicated.

Open the Automation Scripts application and select Create > Script from the action menu. Create the following script.

• Script: ASSET.DUPLICATE
• Description: Override description when duplication an asset
• Language: python
• Source Code:

dupmbo.setValue("DESCRIPTION", "New asset!!!")

Thanks to Stephen Hume and Steven Cliff from BPD Zenith.