Hi there,
At our shop we have an “ingest” task where we add all our media. When artists open their tasks, they can’t see that media from their “comp” tasks.
Is there a one size fits all solution where we can maintain a separate task for ingest but allow artists to view that stuff on their my tasks?
Maybe it’s the wrong approach, what are others doing?
Thanks in advance.
I would maybe add to the above scrn shot a filter for just the comp (or rather current) and ingest pipe steps… But that would really really set us up for success.
@Ricardo_Musch curious to know what you think! 
Hi @Cameron,
It looks like you’re showing the tasks details link in My Tasks but wanting the link details (Shot/Asset/Seq/etc).
This means when you click on a task, it is loading the details page for that specific task only. You can change this to show the details of the entity the task is linked to which will then give the artist all of the relevant details they might need for the shot.
If you go into your site prefs under advanced, there is a section called
“In My Tasks show task link detail”
Set that to “Yes, in My Tasks show task link detail”.
Alternatively, you could try to add another tab that links to specific versions from the related ingest task/step but that might make things a bit inconsistent for people working on tasks of other entity types like assets. You’ll just have to play around with it.
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@PeteHart thank you so very much, this is perfect 
(the site prefs option)
@PeteHart I wonder if you also know how best to populate these thumbnails now too 
?
You’ll need to configure the thumbnail field on the task entity for those. Let me know if you need more details around that
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Thanks @PeteHart - do you mean programmatically? I wish there were a button somewhere, that’s what I’m hoping to find. Just basically make the thumbnails based on latest shot versions rather than specific tasks - or just any way I can add the “current shot” to the thumbnail query but doesn’t seem likely at the moment?
You can configure this in the site.
Select the tasks tab or go to the tasks page on your project and find the thumbnail field:
r-click on the header and hit “configure field”
The default is usually the middle option, which is to use the thumbnail from the latest submitted version associated with the task (when someone publishes a version to the task it uses that thumbnail)
But you can use the “Thumbnail Based on Query” to set your own logic, or the top manual option to upload whatever image you like
ah yes thanks again @PeteHart - It looks like queries won’t let you find “current shot” at that level, and the second option only shows versions linked to the current task. In order for the task thumbs to show up with our Ingested plates (when no media yet available to replace), I’ll need to modify one of our ingest hooks to upload a thumbnail to the comp tasks. Issue with that is that I’d love for the task thumb to revert to one of the other settings later when there’s media on the task… Will not be easy I see…
Let me know if you know of a way to change field settings programmatically via the API? That’s what I’ll look to do I think.
I can’t think of a query option that would give you the shot thumbnail and then the task thumbnails off the top of my head. I suspect even if you did approach it that way the query might be on the slow side.
That said, when artists do select their task in the My Tasks page, the shot details page should load and display the shot thumbnail in the upper left corner anyway. Usually having the task thumbnails stay blank until work is submitted under them is a nice way to stay on top of what’s happening at a glance
