Sharing Components

[Philip]

HI

Just wondered, is it possible to share components between asset versions?

I'm pretty sure I was doing this and it was working, however, I'm noticing now that its not working and I'm questioning my a sanity as to whether it ever was.

If I create a Component (unmanaged location) on a AssetVersion all is good, but if I try to add the same Component to another AssetVersion, it simply transfers it.

 

sourceAssetVersion = session.get("AssetVersion","cf0e384c-606d-4bc1-9fdd-b7983562bc32")
destAssetVersion = session.get("AssetVersion","d9fdddf7-d27d-45ec-8bfb-1c95ecf97afa")

destAssetVersion['components'].append(sourceAssetVersion['components'][0])

session.commit()

Is this normal behaviour?

thanks

Phil

[Mattias Lagergren]

Hi Philip,

A component cannot be attached to several versions at the same time. There is a relation on the Component (version_id) entity that points directly to an AssetVersion.

[Philip]

OK Thank you for confirming. 

I think I must have imagined it working, and probably thought that because you can share a thumbnail you could share any component. But I guess the thumbnails are handled differently.