topic Re: Delete/Remove old versions of documents in Alfresco Archive

Delete/Remove old versions of documents

ddenev — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:02:33 GMT

Hi,Why is it not possible to delete old versions of documents? Will this be added as a feature soon? thank you.

Re: Delete/Remove old versions of documents

mrogers — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:32:43 GMT

It looks like you can delete content. I found threads in this forum discussing the finer implementation details of how to configure it.

For example:
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12676&p=42008&hilit=archive#p42008

Re: Delete/Remove old versions of documents

ddenev — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:07:54 GMT

уell i'll have a deeper look at this but i was looking more for how to do this from the web gui

Re: Delete/Remove old versions of documents

ddenev — Sun, 30 May 2010 09:17:57 GMT

Hi,

Almost year and a half after the initial post has passed but I still cannot find a way to remove individual previous versions of documents. Is this feature still not implemented or am I failing to find it? Thank you.

Best regards

Re: Delete/Remove old versions of documents

ddenev — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:54:02 GMT

Dear Alfresco Team,

Could you please answer the question? Thank you.

Best regards

Re: Delete/Remove old versions of documents

p3d3r0s0 — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:43:03 GMT

Isnt that option in the user profile link?
I cant remember the exact name of the link, but in the user icon next to the admin console (top), isnt there the option you are looking for?

Re: Delete/Remove old versions of documents

ddenev — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:23:05 GMT

The option you are referring to is for purging deleted content. What I need is to be able to delete selected previous versions of content that is versionable.

Re: Delete/Remove old versions of documents

andyhorton — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:15:23 GMT

It's not perfect, but if I want to remove all the old versions for a document, I do the following:

1. View document's details page
2. Manage aspects
3. Remove the versionable aspect
See now, there are no versions

If you want the doc to continue to be versionable:
4. Manage aspects
5. Add the versionable aspect back in
See, there are still no versions

Obv it only works for a single doc.

Re: Delete/Remove old versions of documents

t5d — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 04:49:00 GMT

Hello.

The support for deleting individual versions is already implemented in repository:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15739458/delete-specific-version-of-document-in-alfresco
http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/org/alfresco/service/cmr/version/VersionService.html#deleteVersion%28org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef,%20org.alfresco.service.cmr.version.Version%29

So, you should implement:
- web script, that deletes specified version of specified document
- UI in Alfresco Share, that calls this web script

Hope, this helps.
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t5d.