Hi Ferdinant,
Great! Thank you for your support - I really appreciate it!

with...

asset: maxon.AssetDescription = repo.FindLatestAsset(
        maxon.AssetTypes.File(), aid, maxon.Id(), maxon.ASSET_FIND_MODE.LATEST)
version_string: str = maxon.AssetInterface.GetVersionString(asset)
version_string = version_string[:-19].strip() #deleting the timestamp

I could filter out the Version String. Thank you again for your help.

Cheers,
MPB

Thank you Ferdinand,

ok, but how do I get the string of the asset version? I cannot find any reference to the version string in the examples from "asset_metadata_r26.py". I've also searched the SDK and the Asset Framework, but couldn't find anything that would point me in the right direction.

Or is it not possible to print out the string of a asset-version?

Really sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi Ferdinant,

I'm very sorry for not thinking more about my post. Yes, the devil is in the details: I'm trying to access the version description and - if possible - counting it up +0.1 for the automatic upload of a new version of the asset.

Here is part of my code as an example, although it's just a proof of concept at the moment. I've added some comments for clarification.

def process_object(obj, doc, repo, target_category_id, force_new_id=False): #creating a new asset and using the commentary-tag to store asset information
    tag = obj.GetTag(c4d.Tannotation) or obj.MakeTag(c4d.Tannotation)
    tag.SetName(TAG_NAME)
    tag[c4d.ANNOTATIONTAG_TEXT] = obj.GetName()

    existing_id_str = tag[c4d.ANNOTATIONTAG_URL] #using the URL-field for the asset-id
    asset_id = None
    if existing_id_str and not force_new_id:
        try:
            temp_id = maxon.Id(existing_id_str)
            
            #check if the asset-ID is in the database
            asset_desc = repo.FindLatestAsset(maxon.AssetTypes.File().GetId(), temp_id, maxon.Id(), maxon.ASSET_FIND_MODE.LATEST)
            if not asset_desc.IsNullValue(): #if the asset is found....
                asset_id = temp_id  #...use the temp ID as the current ID
                
                #get latest version description and try to set the version number +0.1
                print(asset_desc.GetVersion())
                print(asset_desc.GetRepositoryId())
                print(asset_desc.GetMetaData())
                current_version_str = str(asset_desc.GetVersion()) # <--- this is the tricky part --- 
                if current_version_str:
                    try:
                        current_version = float(current_version_str) + 0.1 #try to convert it to float and add 0.1
                    except ValueError:
                        current_version = 1.0 #...if unsuccessful (string that shouldn't be used), then start with 1.0 again
                else: #if none
                    current_version = 1.0
.....

I hope this makes sense.
Thank you very much for any help!

Hi! I'm currently trying to get the latest version of an asset in the asset browser. At first, I thought it should work with "assetDescription.GetVersion()", but that only gives me some kind of ID. The same goes for "GetIdAndVersion()".

Maybe someone here has an idea on how to get the latest asset version number (or string) in python?

Cheers!
MPB