Maya: Workfile Increment in one go

[moonyuet]

Changelog Description

This PR is to add the option to increment and save workfile in Maya.

Additional info

• Not working for untitled scene:)/new scene
• We need to think about the implementation of increment and save in other hosts
• Please make sure you updated the latest version of ayon core addon.

Testing notes:

1. Enable the plugin in ayon+settings://core/tools/Workfiles/ayon_menu/version_up_workfile
   

2. Launch Maya

3. Go to AYON

4. Click Version up Workfile
   

[ynbot]

Task linked: AY-5538 workfile increment in one go

[LiborBatek]

The tool does what it should also tested with custom _suffix present in the filename and all working fine.

There might be few questions still.

First if the tool should be named as it is atm

or changed to someting like Workfile Increment Version or similar @antirotor @BigRoy opinions on that?

And second if it should be somehow treated in relation to native maya CTRL+ALT+S Incremental save action...as now it is not working with conjunction with it and produce odd results on the active workfile version.... (by appending another version like myworkfilename_v0010.001 )

Again something to consider imho.

[BigRoy]

or changed to someting like Workfile Increment Version or similar @antirotor @BigRoy opinions on that?

I agree that it looks odd in the list where it is. Note that we've had this in Maya all this time already but in our custom scripts menu.

For sake of reference, here is a screenshot:

What is nice about that one is that it's very close to the top since it's such a frequently clicked button - and preferably also NOT misclicked with "Set frame range" in the list where it is now.

As such I'm wondering whether it's worth thinking about moving it directly below the greyed out current context entry as just "Version up" or "Version up workfile".

And second if it should be somehow treated in relation to native maya CTRL+ALT+S Incremental save action...as now it is not working with conjunction with it and produce odd results on the active workfile version.... (by appending another version like myworkfilename_v0010.001 )

It would be nice to have it be able to pick that up - yet at the same time we do want to keep it abstractly working also with other DCCs or with custom comments in the names like _v001_my_comment_01. Anyway, easiest maybe to make it 'version up' exactly like what the workfiles tool would propose as new filename, which I believe would just strip off the .001 and go for _v011

Another benefit is that with that logic it would also be capable of generating the first version name :)

[LiborBatek]

Works as expected and now the tool sits in Custom Menu.

Still would like to hear opinions on that... @antirotor @m-u-r-p-h-y

But can be merged as is imho.

[BigRoy]

If we're going for custom menu - can we move it to the top by default? If we're not, then I'd still want to argue for moving it to the top of the AYON menu (which is what I initially meant).

[antirotor]

My opinion is not to have it in custom menu - where we shouldn't add core ayon behavior and leave it for studio customizations and maybe some optional or very specialized scripts. And that would mean having it as high as possible in the main menu.

[LiborBatek]

Works nicely...

If something then Im not 100 percemt sure about the settings and its location in the Core addon...its the very last setting and I would expect it more up aka closer to Workfile settings

[BigRoy]

If something then Im not 100 percemt sure about the settings and its location in the Core addon...its the very last setting and I would expect it more up aka closer to Workfile settings

Agreed - with that label on the setting I also wouldn't expect that to influence the menu entry. We should really label it something like "Add 'Version Up Workfile' to AYON menu" or something alike, and of course place it in a sensible place.

[BigRoy]

With maya client code separated I believe this PR should also bump the maya addon version.

[BigRoy]

Didn't test - code overall looks good to me.

I did have one comment on title in settings - there's also still an open comment by @iLLiCiTiT to revert ayon core version change.

Also, this comment should still be considered but for a separate issue.

[antirotor]

Tested, it works nice. Thanks

[BigRoy]

@antirotor could you test this edge case?