Disabling auto-versioning in Alfresco Linux

jbrasil

Hi all,
I am not able to disable auto versioning in Alfresco Linux.
Tested in version 5.2 and 6.1
See parameters in global properties

#Disable file versioning
cm: autoVersion = false
cm: initialVersion = false

version.store.initialVersion = false
version.store.enableAutoVersioning = false
version.store.enableAutoVersionOnUpdateProps = false

What is wrong?
Thanks a lot
José Roberto

abhinavmishra14

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@jbrasil wrote:

Hi all,
I am not able to disable auto versioning in Alfresco Linux.
Tested in version 5.2 and 6.1
See parameters in global properties

#Disable file versioning
cm: autoVersion = false
cm: initialVersion = false

version.store.initialVersion = false
version.store.enableAutoVersioning = false
version.store.enableAutoVersionOnUpdateProps = false

What is wrong?
Thanks a lot
José Roberto

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When you update these properties, it doesn't affect existing nodes. It will affect only newly created nodes. Auto version will continue to happen on existing nodes as those nodes would have below given props set:

This is the default configuration at repo level:

version.store.initialVersion=true
version.store.enableAutoVersioning=true
version.store.enableAutoVersionOnUpdateProps=false

You would need to cleanup the old existing objects by running a script/webscript to set the values to false in order to make them follow the versioning disablement. I don't think there is any change needed in upload functionality If i understood the query properly. 

Have a look at these posts:

https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-content-services-forum/version-history-does-not-include-property-updates/m-p/297112/highlight/true#M18250

If you want to version nodes on demand as the nodes are created into repo, better make use of behaviors. Don't change anything in upload.post.js file. With behaviors you would get more control over the nodes and their types and you can choose to version a specific type of node too. 

https://docs.alfresco.com/6.1/references/dev-extension-points-behaviors.html

https://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/org/alfresco/repo/node/NodeServicePolicies.OnCreateNodePolicy.html

Create a behavior onCreateNode event and bind the behavior to a content type and then set the properties using node service on the creating node like:

private void setVersionPropertiesOnDemand(NodeRef nodeRef) {
	if (nodeService.hasAspect(nodeRef, ContentModel.ASPECT_VERSIONABLE)) {
		Map<QName,Serializable> props = nodeService.getProperties(nodeRef);
                props.put(ContentModel.PROP_INITIAL_VERSION, true); 
		props.put(ContentModel.PROP_AUTO_VERSION, true);
		props.put(ContentModel.PROP_AUTO_VERSION_PROPS, true);
		nodeService.addProperties(nodeRef, props);
	} else {
		Map<QName,Serializable> versionProps = new ConcurrentHashMap<QName, Serializable>();
                versionProps.put(ContentModel.PROP_INITIAL_VERSION, true); 
		versionProps.put(ContentModel.PROP_AUTO_VERSION, true);
		versionProps.put(ContentModel.PROP_AUTO_VERSION_PROPS, true);
		nodeService.addAspect(nodeRef, ContentModel.ASPECT_VERSIONABLE, versionProps);
	}
}