topic Document naming and versioning in Alfresco Archive

Document naming and versioning

andy_ukgrid — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:45:08 GMT

Hi,can someone explain if there is a way to resolve differences in document filename version and in the version number maitained by Alfresco in the file metadata? What I mean is, if I upload a document to Alfresco and enable versioning Alfresco assumes the document starts at V1.0. What if the file i

Re: Document naming and versioning

davidd — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:24:59 GMT

I would like to know exactly the same things!

Re: Document naming and versioning

calle — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:47:18 GMT

I think you could write a script that turns off versioning when you upload the document.
Set document.properties.autoVersion=false and document.properties.initialVersion=false then set the version number you want by document.properties.versionLabel="your version number" and finally document.save. Then turn on autoVersion again.

Also, if you need to import the version number from some metadata you need a metadata extractor, see http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction.

//Carl

Re: Document naming and versioning

davidd — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:28:28 GMT

A script? good grief!
I'm afraid I don't know where to start with that! (what scripting language? where do I put the script to get executed?)

Is there no way to simply edit the version number of a document in the GUI?

Also I can't seem to add new versions of documents to spaces either anyways, never mind what document version number I want
(see https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-1839
and http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13439&p=44237#p44237 )