Environment Variables

A number of different environment variables exist to help control the behavior of the Toolkit Startup.

General

SHOTGUN_HOME

Overrides the location where Toolkit stores data, which includes bootstrap data as well as bundle cache, cached thumbnails and other temp files.

SGTK_PREFERENCES_LOCATION

Allows you to store your configuration file somewhere else on your computer or on your network. See the documentation here.

TK_BOOTSTRAP_CONFIG_OVERRIDE

Low level bypass to set the configuration desciptor URI that the bootstrap API should load up. Useful in complex workflow development scenarios.

TK_DEBUG

Controls debug logging.

Authentication

SGTK_DEFAULT_AUTH_METHOD

Specifies which authentication method should be selected if none are selected yet. Available values are credentials, qt_web_login, and app_session_launcher.

Note: this variable does not override the session cache. If a valid method has been recorded in the session cache, this method will be prioritized over the one provided by SGTK_DEFAULT_AUTH_METHOD.

SGTK_AUTH_ALLOW_NO_HTTPS

Allows the user to bypass the HTTPS requirement for the authentication methods. This is not recommended and should only be used in combination with legacy ShotGrid local installations.

SGTK_FORCE_STANDARD_LOGIN_DIALOG

Always display the traditional authentication (login and password fields) in the login window dialog even when the Flow Production Tracking site has other authentication methods enabled.

TK_AUTH_PRODUCT

Provide a custom application name when using the “App Session Launcher” authentication instead of relying on an autodetected name.

TK_SHOTGRID_DEFAULT_LOGIN

Indicates the default Autodesk Identity account to use to pre-fill the login window dialog. This is purely for the convenience of the user and has no other use or side-effects.

TK_SHOTGRID_SSO_DOMAIN

When the user’s Autodesk Identity account is on an email domain that uses SSO for authentication, setting this variable will allow the bypass of the initial Autodesk Identity window. This saves the user from entering their email twice. The expected format of this variable should be an email domain, like gmail.com, mystudio.com, autodesk.com, etc.. Other than that, this variable has no other use or side-effects.

Bundle cache

SHOTGUN_BUNDLE_CACHE_FALLBACK_PATHS

Path that lets a user specify bundle cache fallbacks to go look for a bundle in case it is now found in the bundle cache. This is part of the Bootstrap API. Also see Flow Production Tracking Integrations Admin guide.

SHOTGUN_BUNDLE_CACHE_PATH

Overrides the path to the main bundle cache, e.g. the location where the Descriptor URI will download bundles.

SHOTGUN_DISABLE_APPSTORE_ACCESS

Setting this to 1 will disable any Flow Production Tracking Appstore access. No attempts to connect will be carried out. This option can be useful in cases where complex proxy setups is preventing Toolkit to correctly operate.

File resolving

SHOTGUN_PATH_<WINDOWS|MAC|LINUX>_<STORAGENAME>

Specifies your local storage root on different operating systems. See Resolving local file links.

SHOTGUN_PATH_<WINDOWS|MAC|LINUX>

Resolves a file:// URL on different operating systems. See Resolving file URLS.

Thumbnail display for Flow Production Tracking

SGTK_PROJ_THUMB_OLD

When specified the old thumbnail cropping behavior will be used. See Configuring the thumbnail display in Flow Production Tracking