Overview

Please note: command line control of PFTrack is only available to Enterprise customers.

PFTrack has a set of command line arguments to script the building of projects, loading of media, and processing of macro scripts.

Running from the command line

PFTrack can be ran from the command line using the Windows Command Prompt tool.PFTrack can be ran from the command line using the Terminal on macOS.PFTrack can be ran from the command line using any shell/terminal on Linux.}

To run PFTrack, enter a command such as:

 -help

Only a single instance of PFTrack can run on a given machine at any one time. If you try to launch PFTrack from the command line while another copy is already running you will see this error message:

ERROR: already running

and the application will immediately exit. If you specify the -retry command line argument then rather than immediately exiting PFTrack will wait until the other running copy completes and then runs.