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I don't quite understand your question. Fusion can render to several kinds of video files or to discrete image frames, and those can certainly go into a shared folder. You could theoretically also put the .comp file itself and the sources in a Dropbox share, and if all the Loaders use the comp: Path Map*, others could open it and see it exactly as you do if you needed a collaborative workflow.
And you can render specific portions of your timeline. But if "render with timeline" is some particular editor's jargon, it's not something I have heard before. Could you describe the functionality you are looking for more specifically?
*Path maps let you use a short code to stand in for a path. comp: is a built-in dynamic path map that points to the folder the composition file currently resides in. So if you are working on F:/Dropbox/projects/foo/Fusion/myAwesomeComp_v31.comp, and your footage is in F:/Dropbox/projects/foo/plates/greenscreen/dayFour_gs_shoot.####.dpx, then your Loader would have this path: comp:../plates/greenscreen/dayFour_gs_shoot.####.dpx
Your collaborator, who stores their Dropbox at D:/data/freelance/Dropbox could use the same Loader, and as long as the relative path is the same, the footage will still be found, even though the rest of their file system is completely different.