Check in vs. Update

[sk]

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. I tried to upload the document on my desktop, the uploading works fine but The commnets for revision are deletet also is it impossible to make it a mayor revision.  Is this a bug?
I also tried to update a document which is not checked out. That works as well, The system will give a new minor revision to the document without myself having a chance to add coments for the revision.

How can I handel documents lets say revision 4,  we are using at the moment. Is there a way to upload the docs and start in alfresco with revision 4?
Thanks for your reply.
SK

[rwetherall]

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