topic Re: versioning files with same name in Alfresco Archive

versioning files with same name

jbeardshouse — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:44:27 GMT

I have installed alfresco community edition 4.2c and I followed the wiki and documention listed below to enable autoversioning. When I upload a file, it gets the versionable aspect, as it should. And I can use the "upload a new version" functionality to create versions. However, if I use the gene

Re: versioning files with same name

lementree — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:41:03 GMT

HI,

Auto Version just adds versionable aspect.

Re: versioning files with same name

jbeardshouse — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:39:00 GMT

Thanks.

Does any one know of the best way to implement automatic versioning of files uploaded with the same name?

Even a hint in the right direction would help

Re: versioning files with same name

jbeardshouse — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:40:00 GMT

Ok, so after looking through the code I came up with a solution. As stated above the autoversioning stated on the wiki is not enough to automatically version files of the same name upon upload.

The multipart mime submissions for file uploads has an "overwrite" parameter which, if set to true, will automatically version files of the same name (if the file has the versionable aspect).

The default behavior is to have "overwrite" set to false. (I think this behaviour may have changed from a previous version of alfresco)
I could not find a global paramter to modify this parameter, so I modified the client side JS files to turn this on by default.

I modified the "overwrite: false," to "overwrite: true," in the following files:
dnd-upload.js dnd-upload-min.js file-upload.js file-upload-min.js html-upload.js html-upload-min.js

if there is a better way of doing this someone please let me know.

If this is the easiest way to accomplish the task. It may be appropriate to have a feature request to expose this behavior in alfresco-global.properties, or somewhere else more excessible. I doubt I am the only one who desired this type of behavior.

Re: versioning files with same name

nandhakumars — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:28:00 GMT

Thanks it helped alot

Re: versioning files with same name

stefanoder — Wed, 29 May 2013 21:08:05 GMT

Thanks, I'm looking for this behavior too and you post does help.

Re: versioning files with same name

ustamills — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:39:48 GMT

Bump. I too would like to see this.