versioning gateway clips

[rgrandy]

Hey all,

I'm looking for information about versioning gateway clips. I wrote a clip generator that gets run when our cg department renders with vray. What we can't seem to find out is where the "load as version" option is in the batch import. Or what it's looking for to determine if a set of clips are versions of one another.  Right now, the Flame artists are independenty importing the next clip version and manually reconnecting to the new clip. It sucks (we have a car spot endtag with over 30 elements and client changes a couple time a day.)  I have a support call in, but it's been a week and I'd like to wrap this thing up.

Even if we did get Flame to "load as versions," how does it know between versions of a clip, which feeds match up? Matching track "uid?"

If I create a track for each render layer, and maintain the track uid between clip versions for say the "beauty" and "matte" passes, would it work? Would I also need to version up the feed "vuid?" 

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

thanks,

Rick