Push to Library project documentation

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Hi all,

I came across this menu item in the Loader tool to push a product to another project. Is there any documentation on this yet? I’m curious what exactly this is doing and the limitations of it.

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No documentation on that action, so you’ll need to ask @iLLiCiT about it.

The functionality of the action is to push the product, as you said, to a library project. A library project is just a project tagged as a library to be accessible from all projects; Library Loader | openPYPE

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And, @tokestuartjepsen @iLLiCiT please help “how to” a project can be tagged as Library project :unamused:

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It does matter which project management are you using. Using Project Manger tool in OpenPype can set the library project on creation, ftrack has custom attribute on a project, etc.

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Project Manger tool in OpenPype.

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Out of curiosity - what is the reason that the Library Project toggle is not exposed in project settings but through Ftrack you can sync the change of library project enabled/disabled state after a project was created.

Ftrack has the attribute exposed:
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And that syncs over just fine.

Can’t we allow the toggle to be done from the project settings too?

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I didn’t know that’s possible!
I’m using kitsu, and I can only create a library project from Openpype project manager!
and I can’t sync that to kitsu of course!

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Out of curiosity - what is the reason that the Library Project toggle is not exposed in project settings but through Ftrack you can sync the change of library project enabled/disabled state after a project was created.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean it’s good idea :slightly_smiling_face: .

I don’t know what technically it would mean if you would try to use a project as library project. Imagine you would convert 3d project, where references are used all over the place, to library, then try ti import something to other project. Would it work? I don’t know…

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As far as I know you can currently generate the exact same publishes in a library project with the same issues, but I might be mistaken. When testing the feature I couldn’t see much differences between either of the two project types except for this toggle.

Also, Push To Project I believe also doesn’t compensate for those references, right?