Can not assign user to sequence/shot/assetbuild/assetgroup

[Remus Avram]

Hi Ftrack Team,

is there a reason way we can not assign users to sequence/shot/assetbuild/assetgroup, or there is a config in the System settings?

Cheers,

Remus

[Mattias Lagergren]

On 14/02/2017 at 6:56 PM, Remus Avram said:

is there a reason way we can not assign users to sequence/shot/assetbuild/assetgroup, or there is a config in the System settings?

This is restricted in ftrack, mostly because quite a few areas in the ftrack application assumes that a User only has tasks assigned to them, and that Tasks only have users assigned to them.

There are also a few logical challenges that must be solved. Like if a user has a shot assigned, should he/she see all tasks on his Task board? What happens if another user is assigned to a Task where a User is assigned to the Shot - does that overrule the Task assignment, and so on.

These issues are not impossible to solve, but the change and necessary QA is quite significant on our side. It has been up for discussion a few times but we haven't prioritised it so far.

[Remus Avram]

1 hour ago, Mattias Lagergren said:

This is restricted in ftrack, mostly because quite a few areas in the ftrack application assumes that a User only has tasks assigned to them, and that Tasks only have users assigned to them.

This makes sens from pipeline point of view as well.

1 hour ago, Mattias Lagergren said:

There are also a few logical challenges that must be solved. Like if a user has a shot assigned, should he/she see all tasks on his Task board? What happens if another user is assigned to a Task where a User is assigned to the Shot - does that overrule the Task assignment, and so on.

I think this differs from studio to studio. For example in our case a shot is assigned to a Producer/Project Manager who is responsible of the Shot (if there is more then 1 Producer/Project Manager for a show). In this case, all the tasks of the shot are not assigned automatically to the respective Producer and in "My Tasks" are displayed the shots/assitbuilds as well. At the moment we create a task under the shot and assign it to the Producer which fix the issue which producer is managing which shot/assetbuild.