Document versioning

[Salvador Baena, modificado hace 11 años.]

Hello,

Working with the Documents and Media portlet we ended up having this doubt regarding the versioning of a document. We would like to know what it is to be done in order to move the version of a document from 1.x to 2.y. We have read so far that this happens when, while editing a document, it is indicated somewhere that this version is a major version, however, in our case, there is no such option and hence everytime changes are applied to a document the number of the version increases reaching even the 1.32 version.

I do not know if the above mentioned description was expressed clearly enough, but we would appreciate if anyone could bring some light to the topic.

Regards!!

[Hitoshi Ozawa, modificado hace 11 años.]

It used to be that users were able to set version number. However in recent releases, liferay automatically increase version number.

[Salvador Baena, modificado hace 11 años.]

Hello Hitoshi,

Yes, the version number is increased but we want to know how this increment works, based on what minor/major changes and more important how it is produced the change from a version 1.3 for example to a 2.0, that is what we were not able to find out yet.

[Pavel Savinov, modificado hace 11 años.]

To understand it you can take a look at the EditFileEntryAction class of DL portlet, updateFileEntry method:

	
/* ... in updateFileEntry() ... */	
boolean majorVersion = ParamUtil.getBoolean(
	uploadPortletRequest, "majorVersion");

that means that you can pass boolean parameter, named majorVersion with value true to get a new major version. Otherwise(and by default) this parameter is absent. All you need is hook