Manual content versioning

[nivlacnz]

Firstly, let me congratulate the team on such excellent work… Our company is currently looking for a document management too and so far this is the best I have seen yet.

The question I have is this:
When versioning is enabled, each new version which is checked in is given a, automatically updated, version number 1.0, 1.1, … etc
Is it possible to manually specify a version number rather than have the system do it automatically? or at least be able to change the version after it has been assigned (i.e. first version of document is labeled 1.0. Can we change that to, for example, 3.1 and have auto versioning continue from that point?)

Motive:
We have several existing documents which already have version numbers, many of our documents refer to specific versions of other documents.
It would be a massive task to edit each document and change the versions etc refered to within and so much nicer if we could check in these documents and label them as version 3, 3.1, 4, … etc as they are already.
Once all documents are in the repository then we would happily re-enable auto-versioning and have it carry on with 4.1, 4.2, … etc.
There may still however be times when things get out of sync and it would be good if we could edit a particular documents properties to change its version to fix this.

Thanks…
…Calvin

[davidc]

Hi Calvin,

Thank you for your interest.

At this moment, it is not possible to explicitly specify the version label in the Web Client.

However, in the Repository we do have a component which is responsible for determining the next version label when an item is versioned.  We want to make this component pluggable to allow customisation of this process.

With the above support, it would be possible to allow the editing of the version label (or an alternative custom attribute) in the Web Client, which is picked up by the Repository to set the next version label.

[liat]

Hi,

Is it possible already to specify a version number ?

thanks , Liat

[steuni]

Hello,

Does anyone know if there's a way to achieve this with latest version 2.9 ?
Does one of the Alfresco APIs allow to update a document with an older version than the most recent version ? I have a client who would like to be able to insert a document as version 1.2 even if version 1.3 already exists.

Thanks,

Jerome