Check in vs. Update

sk — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:37:59 GMT

Hi I am quite new to Alfreco, at the moment I am just "playing " around with the software. It looks quite good and we might use it .However I do have a problem checkin in documents.If I want to upload a document I have 2 options. 1st I can checkin the updated copy in the workspace, that works fine.

Re: Check in vs. Update

rwetherall — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:36:57 GMT

Hi,

When a document is checked out and subsequently checked in a new version is created, as you will have seen the properties of this version are controlled from the check-in form.

When a document is updated (new content uploaded) or in-line edited the auto-versioning behaviour will kick in and create a new version to reflect this change. At the moment an auto-version will always be a minor revision with no comment (perhaps these are things we should be able to configure?)

The auto-version behaviour is controlled by values on the content stored on the versionable aspect. Some information about configuring the auto-versionable behaviour can be found here http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Versioning_Behaviour.

At the moment there is no way to import a document to match a version label it might have had in a previous system. The way to do this will be to implement a custom version label implementation that will understand how to create the correct version labels, providing the behaviour you require.

The framework to do this is in place but there is some outstanding work to make it easily configurable (should be complete in the 1.2 time frame).

I hope this answers some of your questions,

Roy

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