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Allow production to track artist time on tasks with automated timer start, stop and context switching, natively in AYON

Commercial

Production

Time tracking

Milan Kolar

Panel to allow artist to quickly see entities related to the one they have selected. - Same task on neighbouring shots - Sibling tasks - Linked assets - Linked shots<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01953f0c-c8e4-74d0-8005-478d1ebeb876.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

Related work panel

It would be great to have thumbnails propagated across the entities hierarchy. In some scenarios from folder to its children, in other from version to its parents.

Thumbnails Inheritance

Teams are currently substantially underutilised. They should act as users for all intents and purposes for @mentions, assignments and filter.

Team assignments and mentions

Our attributes are scope to the whole AYON instance making it currently impossible to hide or ignore some of them on projects where they might be irrelevant. We should find a way to add come kind of project scope to attributes. This doesn't need to affect their backend accessibility on project entities, but hiding some attributes on specific projects would be very useful.

Hide unwanted attributes in the UI per Project

Add options to notify users about AYON events via e-mail

Email Notifications

When Hero mode is <code>OFF</code> : artists can just load the product, no problem, they get the latest version.When Hero mode is <code>ON</code> : in the Loader, the default version that is selected is the latest version, and <code>not</code> the Hero version :<img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba/post/682346aef2d84c2957d93de7/0196c9cb-dc5e-710e-92e3-c20a701e48d0/b64u-SGVyby53ZWJw.webp" src="https://67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/682346aef2d84c2957d93de7/0196c9cb-dc5e-710e-92e3-c20a701e48d0/b64u-SGVyby53ZWJw.webp?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20250520T030000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO0098AADP7QLUJN4ZLF%2F20250520%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=5eb0886206da210d21b050d1491181030cbcd9617b7b165975cff10ee0cfc8e2" data-featurebase-content-filename="Hero.webp">Problem : if artists want to import a Hero, they need to manually select the [v] for each product they load (which can mean 4 or 5 textures, in the case of published Substance).If Hero mode is active, it would make sense to have it available easily in the Loader, which means force the Hero to be on the first position among the versions list.I think it would help avoid user errors, as we could ask users to not touch anything and just load.It is also discussed here :<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="link" href="https://community.ynput.io/t/in-the-loader-make-hero-selection-easier/2537">https://community.ynput.io/t/in-the-loader-make-hero-selection-easier/2537</a>

Pipeline

Community

In the loader, make Hero selection easier

a.xerri

A simple way to view links between entities and tools to create and manage links.

Entity Links Viewing and Editing

Luke Inderwick

Store and share pre filtered views and allow using these filters as smart lists of entities

Smart lists and filtered view sharing

<ul><li>Show the number of selected items in compliance to windows explorer.<img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba/post/680a22c34d41dd67f051671e/01966796-d092-78a6-bd33-533713ecc983/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png" src="https://67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/680a22c34d41dd67f051671e/01966796-d092-78a6-bd33-533713ecc983/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20250520T030000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO0098AADP7QLUJN4ZLF%2F20250520%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=1a84b0c93a6edda8c6d725fdd14242fb8b5372d36e15d43c5976e8ac2f73b42a"><img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba/post/680a22c34d41dd67f051671e/01966797-6b35-7482-a244-2d4488d01754/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png" src="https://67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/680a22c34d41dd67f051671e/01966797-6b35-7482-a244-2d4488d01754/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20250520T030000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO0098AADP7QLUJN4ZLF%2F20250520%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=f3014ef09e8875f17f62001b925af866dc61291dc63d01d20331320476a0c399"></li><li>Show the number of rows in compliance to spreedsheets or excel.<img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba/post/680a22c34d41dd67f051671e/019667b1-3d08-750a-b138-98deb50ef4d3/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png" src="https://67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/680a22c34d41dd67f051671e/019667b1-3d08-750a-b138-98deb50ef4d3/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20250520T030000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO0098AADP7QLUJN4ZLF%2F20250520%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=9ccacdd261fd1f80cd66acb964cfc71fcd5323d84244e7659c131908f76c208c"></li></ul>

Project Overview Page - Show Count

Mustafa Zaky Jafar

Store any part of AYON hierarchy and re-use it in other places. - Set of tasks for a lead character - Starting project folders

Entity templates

The Project settings allow configuration of addons for each project. But in some situations studio also need to alter the list of addons and/or their version per project.One specific and generic need is to "freeze" the addon versions for a project while still being able to upgrade addon versions for other projects, giving the opportunity to go back to a project using the set of features actually used while it was in production.

Bundle per project

Plan out your production from rough estimates, down to subtask level. With AYON planner you can create and track project phases, studio holidays, artist bookings and deadlines. On the project level you can create multiple scenarios and when you’re ready, mark one of them as live, so the rest of the studio is always up to date. Studio Plan<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019524d1-b1c6-77ee-b212-53b02d8a3fa2.png" data-width="100%" data-align="center">Project schedule<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/019524d4-0d08-74a4-8e9e-e4ddd56060b0.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

Early Access

Planner and Scheduler

Entities are hierarchically organized to reflect production grouping. Task entities are grouped by Status in the Home Tasks Kanban, or other property in the Home Tasks list. But in some situation the user needs more complex or even arbitrary grouping of entities: dailies, shots to sync between sites, versions to deliver, ... In this situations the entities that share specific characteristics, are often ordered together, and some actions can be performed on them. Entity lists allow creating and storing arbitrary selections of entities without altering their actual place in project hierarchy

Las entidades se organizan jerárquicamente para reflejar la agrupación de la producción. Las entidades de tareas se agrupan por Estado en el Kanban de Tareas de Inicio, u otra propiedad en la lista de Tareas de Inicio. Pero en algunas situaciones el usuario necesita una agrupación de entidades más compleja o incluso arbitraria: diarios, tomas a sincronizar entre sitios, versiones a entregar, ... En estas situaciones las entidades que comparten características específicas, a menudo se ordenan juntas, y algunas acciones se pueden realizar en ellas. Las listas de entidades permiten crear y almacenar selecciones arbitrarias de entidades sin alterar su lugar real en la jerarquía del proyecto.

Listas de entidades

Entity lists

Full review workflows directly in AYON. Timeline review, playlists, guest reviewers, advanced drawing tools. <img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba/post/67b7960637365f638ad596b7/0196d313-79e7-7175-a18d-f7ea8ce93374/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" src="https://67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/67b7960637365f638ad596b7/0196d313-79e7-7175-a18d-f7ea8ce93374/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20250520T030000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO0098AADP7QLUJN4ZLF%2F20250520%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=f2ea03b35e6ea5b9e0472b01ff3014732d884a7b73fe1e5d66805150e34747dc" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png">

Review sessions

In some situations, the product type is not enought to convey the purpose or usage of specific products. For example, in a 2D animation workflow, most of the product are Images. But there are different purposes for each task: Concept, Blocking, Polish... Users want to distiguish between these as much as between a Model and a Camera for example. Implementing a new Product type for each of these would give the intended result, but we need a solution available for non-developers.<h2 style="text-align: start">User Stories:</h2><ul><li>As a Concept Artist, when I create a new Product for my task, I should be able to specify that the produced Image is a Concept Image.</li><li>As an Artist, when I need to reference a Concept image, I need to be able to filter out all other Image product and see only Concept Image in the Loader dialog.</li><li>As a CG Supervisor, when designing a production workflow, I need to be able to declare specialised product types conveying a clear and specific purpose without writing code.</li></ul>

Product aliases

Would it be possible to have a column showing the thumbnail in Overview tab in same way you do it for Task Progress tab? So ability to allow thumbnail in view here<img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba/post/681e15d6cbc90e6e34b64721/0196b585-012b-7801-9e07-561de6816d8b/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" src="https://67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/681e15d6cbc90e6e34b64721/0196b585-012b-7801-9e07-561de6816d8b/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20250520T030000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO0098AADP7QLUJN4ZLF%2F20250520%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=2e6ebc214d5baaedff396db0a6159837881f50322cf5ff3917919b387d7e9a57" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png">As task view offers

Add thumbnail column in Overview tab

Marios Bikos

Allow new users to import their historical data from Ftrack to AYON

Ftrack project import

Sometimes you need comment to have a bit more information “between the lines”. Comment tags allow you to add extra categorisation for easier filtering. Additionally, comments also receive a category, which allows for granular permission handling, so you can for example create a private comments category for producers and directrs to discuss shot changes without confusing the artist.

Comment source and tags

The best way to manage the whole project. You can create and manage project hierarchy, assign tasks, change attributes and navigate through your project in a robust and familiar way. <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/0195247b-cad4-70d5-b0f5-63412041aa11.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

Completed

Project Overview Page

Quick and easy to use drawover tool for AYON versions.<img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01952583-fd7a-7d9e-807c-150bdcf926c3.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

Version Annotations

Place to see all of the task and their statuses at a glance. <img src="https://fb-usercontent.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/01952585-69dd-74be-bc44-e321a0730de1.png" data-width="100%" data-align="left">

Task progress page

Sometimes you may want to change a task or folders location in the project because things have changed or it was created in the wrong folder.Add the ability to move the folders location:<ol><li>Right click menu that lets you pick which folder to move it to.</li><li>Drag and drop the folder to the new location.</li></ol>

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Organise folders in the Overview

I suggest to be able to see and open work files in the launcher. Instead of being presented with different DCCs you will instead see the actual work files (see examples below) The current UI leaves a lot of guess work for the user since there are no way of knowing what work files have already been created previously. I know there are ways of limiting the amount of softwares shown for each specific task, but I still think there are better ways to do the UI to remove any guess work. Current UI<img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba/post/67f4bec10b840e8881e57168/019613f8-b308-7a3f-9272-f45e0f9b24cc/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png" src="https://67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/67f4bec10b840e8881e57168/019613f8-b308-7a3f-9272-f45e0f9b24cc/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20250520T030000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO0098AADP7QLUJN4ZLF%2F20250520%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=07e4f502410084ac872b5be3958e3e1816a6d33a20b986cfce7b870ad9a1af51"> 1. Better example (from AYON web)<img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba/post/67f4bec10b840e8881e57168/019613f9-319a-73c9-8e10-d780a445883b/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png" src="https://67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/67f4bec10b840e8881e57168/019613f9-319a-73c9-8e10-d780a445883b/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20250520T030000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO0098AADP7QLUJN4ZLF%2F20250520%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=7ce3d49e8153c81cbddca5f426b42e966b9864cd5472b51247f7092a6d56fcea"> 2. Better example (from Prism)<img data-width="100%" data-align="left" data-featurebase-content-key="67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba/post/67f4bec10b840e8881e57168/019613fb-3ac9-7615-bede-b9797299e308/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png" data-featurebase-content-filename="image.png" src="https://67b76a31b8a7a2f3181da4ba.featurebase-attachments.com/c/post/67f4bec10b840e8881e57168/019613fb-3ac9-7615-bede-b9797299e308/b64u-aW1hZ2UucG5n.png?X-Amz-Expires=3600&amp;X-Amz-Date=20250520T030000Z&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=DO0098AADP7QLUJN4ZLF%2F20250520%2Ffra1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Signature=5a8002902956c0b22738bf3abdd326f7a0ae5449e24a5f7888c2fcc8ea5c8398">+ Clear representation of all workfiles + Icon showing what software + Thumbnails + Artist comments

See and open workfiles in Launcher UI

User

Some Producers use external services or in-house solutions to manage production steps like breakdown, planning scenarios, reporting... Using AYON should not be in the way of that.<h3 style="text-align: start"> User Stories</h3><ul><li>As a production coordinator I want to create many assets in AYON based on my excel sheet</li><li>As a producer I want to export my filtered view from AYON to excel.</li><li>As a producer I need to quickly modify a lot of information on all entities and I'm more comfortable with excel.</li></ul>

CSV Roundtrip

A versatile browser for AYON products and their version. Users can comment, change statuses, run addon actions, open the versions for review and categorise.

Products Browser redesign

A robust dashboarding system to create statistics, graphs and reports of the production.

Reports and Dashboards

Allow new users to import their existing projects from Kitsu. This import should not be confused with an already existing Kitsu integration which allows to work on projects with Kitsu as production tracker, but is not meant for importing historical data.