Document versioning

[shanakaf]

Hello I'm new to Alfresco and I have an issue about document versioning. This is what I need to do..

- User checkout multiple file which related to each other (Assume version 1.0) (like a source code reference)
- Then the user change the files
- And then the user commit the changed files
- So the commit (assume Version 1,1) has reference to all the changed files
- When some one take the Version 1.1, user get all the changed files related to Version 1.1

I need to find out this behavior is possible in Alfresco. If directly not possible, I want to see the possibilities of catering to that requirement some other way.

Thank you,
Shanaka Fernando

[croc]

Hi,

I am not sure if I understand you. But if you mean getting previous version, Yes, Alfresco has that Functionality. If you Upload a New Version. all other previous version are still there. to access them you need to click on the link/file name, then on the window that loads you will see: Earlier version(s): which list all earlier version, you can Download or Revert them.

Thanks,
Croc

[jzaruba]

Hi,

I am not sure if I understand you. But if you mean getting previous version, Yes, Alfresco has that Functionality. If you Upload a New Version. all other previous version are still there. to access them you need to click on the link/file name, then on the window that loads you will see: Earlier version(s): which list all earlier version, you can Download or Revert them.

Thanks,
Croc

Please please could you be more specific about where the revert can be done? Is it somewhere in Share or the Web Client? (I¨m new to Alfresco.)
I know where "Version history" is but there's no "Revert" there, if that's what you meant by "Earlier versions".
In other forum I just read that there is no OTB UI for that and one needs to code that. I find that quite hard to believe though…

[jzaruba]

This manual process can also be implemented programmatically via JavaScript or Web Scripts, which can effectively automate the process of checking in a previous version as a new version.

I think the manual process won't be considered acceptable by our customer, so I will have to take the script-path.

Thank you very much, Luis.

[spdaly01]

@jzaruba

Have you developed a solution for this??  I have a user with the exact same issue.

Steve

[jzaruba]

Hello Steve

(Un)fortunately not yet. I'm not yet in the stage where this feature has to be available to our customer, so I still have some time to get familiar with Alfresco.

I'm sorry for not helping.