Update A Shot

Building the data and calling update()

To update a Shot, you need to provide the id of the Shot and a list of fields you want to update.:

data = {
    'description': 'Open on a beautiful field with fuzzy bunnies',
    'sg_status_list': 'ip'
    }
result = sg.update('Shot', 40435, data)

This will update the description and the sg_status_list fields for the Shot with id of 40435.

• data is a list of key/value pairs where the key is the field name to update and the value to update it to.

• sg is the Flow Production Tracking API instance.

• update() is the shotgun_api3.Shotgun.update() API method we are calling. We provide it with the entity type we’re updating, the id of the entity, and the data we’re updating it with.

Result

The variable result now contains the Shot object that with the updated values.:

{
    'description': 'Opening establishing shot with titles and fuzzy bunnies',
    'sg_status_list': 'ip',
    'type': 'Shot',
    'id': 40435
}

In addition, Flow Production Tracking has returned the id for the Shot, as well as a type value. type is provided for convenience simply to help you identify what entity type this dictionary represents. It does not correspond to any field in Flow Production Tracking.

Flow Production Tracking will always return the id and type keys in the dictionary when there are results representing an entity.

The Complete Example

#!/usr/bin/env python

# --------------------------------------
# Imports
# --------------------------------------
import shotgun_api3
from pprint import pprint # useful for debugging

# --------------------------------------
# Globals
# --------------------------------------
# make sure to change this to match your Flow Production Tracking server and auth credentials.
SERVER_PATH = "https://my-site.shotgrid.autodesk.com"
SCRIPT_NAME = 'my_script'
SCRIPT_KEY = '27b65d7063f46b82e670fe807bd2b6f3fd1676c1'

# --------------------------------------
# Main
# --------------------------------------
if __name__ == '__main__':

    sg = shotgun_api3.Shotgun(SERVER_PATH, SCRIPT_NAME, SCRIPT_KEY)

    # --------------------------------------
    # Update Shot with data
    # --------------------------------------
    data = {
        'description': 'Open on a beautiful field with fuzzy bunnies',
        'sg_status_list': 'ip'
        }
    result = sg.update('Shot', 40435, data)
    pprint(result)

And here is the output:

{'description': 'Opening establishing shot with titles and fuzzy bunnies',
 'id': 40435,
 'sg_status_list': 'ip',
 'type': 'Shot'}