General Question about Version# in WorkFiles

Is Ayon specifically designed to not track version#'s in work folders?

For Fusion DCC - I was trying to configure the workfolder template to include the version number from the filename, but it seems {version} and {@version} do not exist at the time of creating savers in Fusion for publishing.

Ideally, I would like to have workfolder versions saved so artists can compare their current version to previous versions on disk. The more I try to get it working, the more I think that work folders are designed to be versionless?

The ā€œworkā€ renders are considered to be intermediate/staging files that actually have little use persisting, because it is the published versions that should be the versioned and tracked renders.

The renders in the work area are indeed not ā€˜version’-managed.

The formatting data used to define the render path in that sense indeed does not provide any ā€˜version’ information nor is it linked to the comp filename.

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