Assign a custom command or menu to a container

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You can assign a custom script to activate when an object in a container is -click.

To assign a custom script to a container

Select the container in the Outliner.
Open the Attribute Editor.
In the container tab, under the Container Attributes section, enter the name of your custom script in the Rmb Command field.
You can now activate the script by either -clicking an object in the container in the scene view, or -clicking the container or a contained object in the Outliner and selecting Container from the marking menu.

NoteWhen running a custom script from the Outliner, the script name does not appear in the marking menu itself. You only need to highlight the Container menu and then release the mouse button to activate the script.

NoteA script must be located in your script path (environment variable: MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH) to be eligible to put in the Rmb Command field.

NoteDo not include the extension (for example, .mel for a MEL file) in the script name when entering it in the Rmb Command field.

One way to use this attribute is to assign a script that adds a custom menu for a specific container to the existing marking-menu that appears when you -click a container in the scene or the Outliner (in the Container section of the marking menu). An example of such a script named containerRmbMenu.mel is included with the Maya default scripts. You can find it in your Maya install directory under scripts/others.