Add option to link assets on drag & drop

Note: Linking in this case as in link vs. append. Easily confused with linking
a data-block to multiple usages (e.g. single material used by multiple
objects).

Adds a drop-down to the Asset Browser header to choose between Link and Append.
This is probably gonna be a temporary place, T54642 shows where this could be
placed eventually.

Linking support is crucial for usage of the asset browser in production
environments. It just wasn't enabled yet because a) the asset project currently
focuses on single user, not production assets, and b) because there were many
unkowns still for the workflow that have big impact on production use as well.
With the recently held asset workshop I'm more confident with enabling linking,
as design ideas relevant to production use were confirmed.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11536

Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_files_link.c b/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_files_link.c
index 840debad01b..e467dcd243e 100644
--- a/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_files_link.c
+++ b/source/blender/windowmanager/intern/wm_files_link.c
@@ -642,23 +642,23 @@ void WM_OT_append(wmOperatorType *ot)
 /** \} */
 
 /* -------------------------------------------------------------------- */
-/** \name Append Single Data-Block & Return it
+/** \name Link/Append Single Data-Block & Return it
  *
- * Used for appending workspace from startup files.
  * \{ */
 
-ID *WM_file_append_datablock(Main *bmain,
-                             Scene *scene,
-                             ViewLayer *view_layer,
-                             View3D *v3d,
-                             const char *filepath,
-                             const short id_code,
-                             const char *id_name)
+static ID *wm_file_link_datablock_ex(Main *bmain,
+                                     Scene *scene,
+                                     ViewLayer *view_layer,
+                                     View3D *v3d,
+                                     const char *filepath,
+                                     const short id_code,
+                                     const char *id_name,
+                                     bool clear_pre_existing_flag)
 {
   /* Tag everything so we can make local only the new datablock. */
   BKE_main_id_tag_all(bmain, LIB_TAG_PRE_EXISTING, true);
 
-  /* Define working data, with just the one item we want to append. */
+  /* Define working data, with just the one item we want to link. */
   WMLinkAppendData *lapp_data = wm_link_append_data_new(0);
 
   wm_link_append_data_library_add(lapp_data, filepath);
@@ -672,6 +672,36 @@ ID *WM_file_append_datablock(Main *bmain,
   ID *id = item->new_id;
   wm_link_append_data_free(lapp_data);
 
+  if (clear_pre_existing_flag) {
+    BKE_main_id_tag_all(bmain, LIB_TAG_PRE_EXISTING, false);
+  }
+
+  return id;
+}
+
+ID *WM_file_link_datablock(Main *bmain,
+                           Scene *scene,
+                           ViewLayer *view_layer,
+                           View3D *v3d,
+                           const char *filepath,
+                           const short id_code,
+                           const char *id_name)
+{
+  return wm_file_link_datablock_ex(
+      bmain, scene, view_layer, v3d, filepath, id_code, id_name, true);
+}
+
+ID *WM_file_append_datablock(Main *bmain,
+                             Scene *scene,
+                             ViewLayer *view_layer,
+                             View3D *v3d,
+                             const char *filepath,
+                             const short id_code,
+                             const char *id_name)
+{
+  ID *id = wm_file_link_datablock_ex(
+      bmain, scene, view_layer, v3d, filepath, id_code, id_name, false);
+
   /* Make datablock local. */
   BKE_library_make_local(bmain, NULL, NULL, true, false);