topic Setting versionable rule to 'Sites' in Alfresco Archive

Setting versionable rule to 'Sites'

dranakan — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:03:46 GMT

Hello,I need to set versionable aspect to all new documents in Sites in Alfresco Share. It's done by default unless the documents are added by webdav.I have put a rule on "Repository\Sites" which add aspect versionable to all content which have no aspect versionable (not "Run in background", apply t

Re: Setting versionable rule to 'Sites'

afaust — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:16:19 GMT

Hello,

it shouldn't give any immediate technical problems, but there are some minor points you might want to consider:
<ul>
<li>With this rule, you are versioning every content in sites, not just documents in the document library (think about discussions, comments, events in calendar…)</li>
<li>With this rule, you are also versioning Surf-related artifacts put into a site (e.g. dashboard configurations, activate site page configuration) - depending on the volatility of the configuration and amount of sites, you can end up with a long version history, which you can't use directly</li>
<li>I am not sure about the rule applying to renditions / thumbnails, but my current inclination would be that these would also be versioned unless you specifically excluded them, and create additional but useless nodes in the database</li>
</ul>

Regards
Axel

Re: Setting versionable rule to 'Sites'

dranakan — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:51:36 GMT

Thank you Axel.

Re: Setting versionable rule to 'Sites'

lista — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:54:13 GMT

You can easily filter on which content rule gets triggered, though.
You can also add this aspect through Content Model, and avoid rule all together.