YN-0365: Go to workfile from published content

[ynbot]

Please describe the feature you have in mind and explain what the current shortcomings are?

Question:

Is it possible to load published workfiles from the Loader and/or Launcher? Similar to the option in the "Work Files" Dialog but as part of the other widgets

to add some context: this request initially came up when looking at some asset copied using the "Push to Project" Action. The Action does copy over the published workfiles, which is great, but we've noticed that there is no way to load them from the launcher/loader. I then asked myself if this should be a general request of accessing published workfiles (not only for pushed products, but any published element)

Possible implementation:

For every publish that has a source context set that is essentially a workfile, we could have a "Show source in Workfiles" type of action which would essentially open the workfiles tool with that workfile selected. The idea behind that is that it'd work on any publish that came from a workfile, so that e.g. if you have a pointcache v005 somewhere, that you can easily find the source workfile that created it.

This way, if you wanted to quickly open the workfile to investigate it, you can.

For published workfiles belonging to a workfile it could even offer opening the "Source workfile" or "Copy published workfile and open" to pick either the source or published workfile to be selected in the publisher UI.

(It's slightly more complicated in the fact that publishes may not have a workfile, e.g. from tray publisher, or command-line, etc.)

Additional context:

link to discussion on Discord
(might be a private channel)

_This issue was automatically created from AYON ticket YN-0365