topic Versioning not working? in Alfresco Archive

Versioning not working?

nickbailey — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:38:50 GMT

When I check out, edit the working copy and then check in my content the changes I made to the working copy ALWAYS get lost.Anyone else had this problem?btw - I'm using Alfresco on Solaris x86, JBoss as middleware and Oracle for the backend

Re: Versioning not working?

bgl — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:03:14 GMT

Hi,

Did you add the aspect Versionnable to your item ? (you probably did it, but just to be sure :wink: )

Could you explain the way you are making the changes ? May be this could help to solve your problem.

For instance, it it is a plain text document that you edit inline or if it is a word document. In this last case, do you download the file and then upload the updated doc ? etc

Re: Versioning not working?

nickbailey — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:52:51 GMT

It was a word doc - I've been talking to Alfresco support and they say that the way Alfresco does versioning for word docs via the web client is unintuative and clumsy to say the least. You have to checkout to create the working copy, save it to some other drive, edit it there and then check in (remembering not to check in from alfresco created local copy but the copy of the copy you just made)

Basically it makes me want to use a different system

Re: Versioning not working?

xerox — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:57:18 GMT

Hi,

That's indeed a unintuative way… But if you want to edit files, I find the CIFS way the best there is. CIFS is intuative for editing file… You should try it. Just open the file(in the CIFS interface), edit is and save it… You don't have to specify a new location,versioning is working(is you've enabled it for that document), …

friendly regards,
Nick

Re: Versioning not working?

nickbailey — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:25:46 GMT

Hi Xerox

You are right CIFS should be the way to go - The only problem with the CIFS interface is that the CHECKINOUT.EXE program does not give you the option to add a comment when checking a version in . I've asked for a feature enhancement to allow this hopefully it'll happen.

I've also found that by adding

<config>
   <client>
       <edit-link-type>cifs</edit-link-type>
   </client>
</config>

to web-client-config-custom.xml - this makes the "edit" button use CIFS -

Unfortunately users can still click on the actual document link and edit when they have a copy checked out.