Managing Environments
Harmony uses environments to manage and organize related projects. Using environments allows you to organize your production projects by their nature or type.
If your projects center around episodic and commercial types of work, you can create two environments. For example, there can be one called commercials and the other called the_show. Then you can insert the jobs that relate to each type of project. When you want to work on a commercial project, open the commercials environment and select the commercial job you need. Similarly, if you want to work on an episodic project, open the environment called the_show.
Environment | Job | |
commercials |
dentist |
sc_001 sc_002 |
soda |
sc_001 |
|
cereal |
sc_001 |
|
the_show | sho_001 |
sc_001 sc_002 |
sho_002 |
sc_001 | |
dentist |
sc_001 sc_002 |
1. | Select the Database tab. |
2. | Select the Database Management tab. |
3. | Do one of the following: |
‣ | Right-click anywhere in the Environments and Jobs section and click Create New Environment. |
‣ | Click the Settings button and select Create New Environment. |
The New Environment dialog appears.
4. | In the Name field, type the new project's name. |
5. | If you want the user to automatically get the rights to modify all the scene assets (drawing, scene setup, palette lists, etc.), select the Get Rights to Modify All Scene Assets option. |
6. | Click OK. |
The new environment appears in alphabetical order in the Environments & Jobs list.
After you create an environment, you must add it to the Batch Processing queue so that it can vectorize and render the drawings and scenes automatically. You only have to add the environment to the Batch Processing queue once.
1. | In the Environments & Jobs list, select the environment you want to delete. |
2. | Do one of the following: |
‣ | Right-click and select Delete Environment. |
‣ | Click the Settings button and select Delete Environment. |
The Delete Environment dialog box appears.
3. | Click Delete. |
The environment no longer appears in the Environments & Jobs list.