YN-0596: Delivery Action as web action

[ynbot]

Please describe the feature you have in mind and explain what the current shortcomings are?

Can we have a simple Delivery Action for copying & renaming files, basically a clone of Ftrack Delivery?

The product page of Ayon server seems to have more friendly filtering than Ftrack now, it would be cool to be able to utilize it for client deliveries.

We can run web actions that delegate tasks to the launcher though. So we could have a "web action" that:

• ping desktop client to see if user has it (just so we don't show the 'select what you want to deliver' dialog without the user being able to actually trigger delivery)
• if not, present a message "This action only works with the AYON desktop client installed" (Or optionally, it could be rerouted through a running Processor, but that'd just add to complexity)
• if so, then present user the options to pick representations, etc. in a dialog
• then when submitting the form it can set the representation ids to the desktop app as an action, which can then run any local code (very similar to tray browser)
• and that could even show just a regular Qt UI or some notifications from tray possibly that tell about when it's done or not, etc.

Additional context:

link to discussion on Discord
(might be a private channel)

_This issue was automatically created from AYON ticket YN-0596

[kalisp]

According discussion with Kuba at least half of it is not supported right now.

The best we could do is to "trigger it and pray".

[BigRoy]

According discussion with Kuba at least half of it is not supported right now.
The best we could do is to "trigger it and pray".

I think it's this part that's impossible or at least very hard ;)

• ping desktop client to see if user has it (just so we don't show the 'select what you want to deliver' dialog without the user being able to actually trigger delivery)
• if not, present a message "This action only works with the AYON desktop client installed" (Or optionally, it could be rerouted through a running Processor, but that'd just add to complexity)

Let's focus on at least the remainder then. Worst-case scenario we can make the toast notification the user gets on frontend state that something is being launched just state that it requires the AYON desktop launcher?