topic Re: Webdav versioning problem in Alfresco Forum

Webdav versioning problem

art99trash — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:44:50 GMT

I am having an issue with versioning files that are updated through Webdav.Using Community 5 with Postgresql.When a file has been created and is at the 1.0 version, if a user updates the file through webdav, the version does not change. It just overwrites the file. However, if a new version is uploa

Re: Webdav versioning problem

afaust — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:39:50 GMT

Your assumption is correct. When you upload a document via WebDAV it will not be versioned by default. The "1.0" label you are seeing in the UI is basically a "dummy" at this point because in a non-versioned document any current state is always the one and only version of that document.

When you upload a new version via Share, it will add the necessary aspect for the document to be considered versionable.

Versioning can be a quite confusing concept, especially when you are dealing with multiple interfaces. Last year at the BeeCon hackathon a few people worked on documenting the behaviour and potential improvements.

Re: Webdav versioning problem

art99trash — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:59:33 GMT

Axel, thank you for the reply.

Are you saying that there is no way to get the file versioning to work without updating the file

through the client interface?

I would like to create and update files, using only Webdav, and have file versioning working.

Thanks.

Re: Webdav versioning problem

afaust — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:33:50 GMT

You can always create a behaviour (using Java based programming) to automatically apply / enable versioning on all files. The challenge here is to differentiate between actual files (managed via Share UI or WebDAV) and stuff that Alfresco handles transparently "just like" files.