topic Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1?? in Alfresco Archive

How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

iro — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:24:50 GMT

Hello,I´m trying to implement Alfresco Share for document management, but I can´t find a way to set a base version to 0.1 (or 0.0) instead of 1.0Can anyone please direct me to where I can modify this?? It doesn´t need to be user configurable, it could be fixed on 0.1 for all new uploads.The reason f

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

jpotts — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:14:43 GMT

iro,

This is actually something that has changed between 3.4.d and 4.0.d. The way the initial version label is determined is through an inner class called SerialVersionLabel that lives within org.alfresco.repo.version.common.versionlabel.SerialVersionLabelPolicy.java. If you look at the constructor for SerialVersionLabel, you'll see that when there is no version label, the majorRevisionNumber is set to 1:

        public SerialVersionLabel(String versionLabel)
        {
            if (versionLabel != null && versionLabel.length() != 0)
            {
                VersionNumber versionNumber = new VersionNumber(versionLabel);
                majorRevisionNumber = versionNumber.getPart(0);
                minorRevisionNumber = versionNumber.getPart(1);
            }
            else
            {
                majorRevisionNumber = 1;
                minorRevisionNumber = 0;
            }
        }‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

In 4.0.d, this is now set to 0.

So if you are not going to upgrade any time soon, but you want your labels to start with 0.1, you'll need to override SerialVersionLabelPolicy.java with your own class that sets that majorRevisionNumber to 0. In addition to this Java change, you'll also need to tell Spring to use your version policy instead of Alfresco's. You can grep the Alfresco webapp for the class name to find the Spring bean to override.

One other short sidebar related to verison labels in case you come across it: I noticed that in Alfresco 4.0.d, when you create content in Share, the details page shows "Version 1.0". But documents aren't versionable by default and that label isn't really set–it's just a UI thing. If you add a rule to the folder that adds the versionable aspect, new documents will show the correct version label, 0.1.

Jeff

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

orbital — Wed, 30 May 2012 11:44:52 GMT

Hi Jeff,

I have recently become acquainted and have a very well thumbed copy of your guide to working with custom content - great work, thanks. It makes people generally unfamiliar with java coding able to create a real solution fairly easily. This thread is something that I would like to implement to put the icing on the cake (so to speak). Do you have any examples of creating code to override the class so that I can set the base version number?

Any help is very welcome

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

orbital — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 10:06:40 GMT

Hi Jeff (all),

Just to follow up on my last post - I am in the middle of test driving 4.0.d and can confirm that the base version is STILL 1.0 and not 0.1. Does anybody know if there is a property implemented yet?

Thanks,

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

jpotts — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:56:09 GMT

I think my earlier post should have said, "when you create content in Explorer", because if you create content in Explorer, you'll see it has no version label and has no versionable aspect. If you create a rule that adds the versionable aspect, then you look at the document in Share, the version history will look like this:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/PwShH.png[/img]
However, as you point out, if you add the document in Share the version label will be 1.0. So somewhere in the Share code that version label is set.

Jeff

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

sasquatch58 — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 09:57:53 GMT

Would this link help?
https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=42124

Cheers, Sasquatch

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

orbital — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:34:26 GMT

Thanks for your help both. Interestingly, this got me thinking. After reading Jeff's post I went back in to a previously uploaded document (that was showing as version 1.0 in share) and added the Versionable aspect in Explorer. It changed the version number from 1.0 to 0.1. Doing the same in Share left the version number at 1.0

I have also found a Jira bug that relates to this but the fix does seem to be contrary to the behaviour in Explorer, i.e., they have 'fixed' it so that Share uses 1.0.

Jeff: do I need to raise this as a bug, do you think?

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

mrogers — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:22:38 GMT

Share's "lazy versioning" is currently hard coded.

It's simple to change but is a change rather than something that is configurable. I don't think you will get very far with a "bug" but someone could contribute an "enhancement" to make it configurable.

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

jpotts — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:00:16 GMT

This may be working as designed from Engineering's perspective, but it surely is not optimal. It's confusing to end-users who see different behavior between the two clients.

orbital, if you raise a bug and post the link here, I'll certainly vote for it.

And if you (or someone else) fixes Share to make version labels configurable, even better.

Jeff

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

mrogers — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:02:49 GMT

I'm not speaking from "Engineering's perspective" just pointing out it isn't a bug. I'd like to see it changed myself. However if you raise it as a bug it will get rejected.

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

jpotts — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:54:04 GMT

orbital, if you decide to put this in Jira, enter it as an "enhancement" rather than a "bug", then post the link here so I can forward it to product management.

Jeff

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

orbital — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:31:08 GMT

All,

I chose to raise this - you can find it at https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-15082. I had something of a mishap with the spelling in the enhancement subject line. My apologies for this ops:

I encourage everybody who comes across this 'issue' to vote for the enhancement.

Thanks,

Paul

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

jpotts — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:14:26 GMT

Thanks for logging. I've voted for it and I've sent a note over to Mike Farman to see what the chances of getting this addressed in Odin (our next non service pack release). I also fixed the issue title spelling for you.

Jeff

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

3acascia — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:11:11 GMT

Hi Jeff,

your approach works in Alfresco Community 4.2.b but it doesn't work in Alfresco Community 4.2.c.
Can you help me?

Thanks you in advance,
Toma

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

alfsender — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:51:40 GMT

Hi All,

I uploaded document to Alfresco explorer, and check in node browser, it didn't show version property, as aspect was not added. But for same document in Share it showed version number as 1.0. Later I added aspect to same document and checked in node browser now it has aspect and in version label it shows as 1.0.
Second, I added rule to one folder, to add Versionable aspect to all incoming document, i uploaded document from Alfresco explorer. For this also it sets version label as 1.0.

I checked

SerialVersionLabelPolicy‍

class and found method calculateVersionLabel, which does version number calculation. In this for first time when document is uploaded it will not have

preceedingVersion‍

, so it will object of

SerialVersionNumber‍

with null, so inner class will assign 0 (Zero) to

majorVersionNumber‍

, but after that there is a condition which checks if its a Major version, it will do

majorVersionNumber‍

increment by 1. So here we need to check

if (Major version & preceedingVersion != null)‍

then only do

majorVersionNumber‍

increment.

I think this should work, i am doing these changes and will update if all goes well..

Regards.

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

twallace — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:48:05 GMT

I've been wrestling this issue for over 2 weeks and finally found a simple solution in Share.

Create a Folder Rule with the following:

Remove Versionable Aspect
Add Versionable Aspect
Change cm:versionLabel to 0.1
Check Out (no destination folder required)
Check In (as minor version)

This creates a locked document with a *hidden* version label. Manually upload a new version (same document is fine) and set it to a minor version. Document is then available with 0.1 as version label and with 0.1 as the last Version in the version history.

I implemented this on a folder as a Space Template, so that non-technical users don't need to do anything except create a new folder from the template. The document is then locked for editing by them and ready for the first 0.1 version to go in.

Re: How can I set base version for documents to 0.1??

deadbird — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:28:22 GMT

I came around this page in search of the "0.1 baseline versioning", but it seems that Alfresco 5.0.x doesn't implement this feature :'(

Can someone explain once for all how to get 0.1 instead of 1.0 in versioning aspect?

thanks a lot