RES: Versioning scheme / Bulk load / Unusual customer

On 06/14/13 11:40, Guilherme Rocha wrote:
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> I forgot to mention that, because this customer receives documents from different places and
> different versioning schemes, they can have both alphabetic and numeric revisions in the SAME
> STATE and thats really my problem because OOTB WC suggests that they must be in separated seeds of
> a series, denying me to use both in the same state.
>

You could write a custom java class or jsp page you run immediately after the load that does the
following:

1. parses the xml file to get the doc name and correct revision
2. uses wt.vc.VersionControlHelper.service.changeRevision() to reset the revision to the correct value
* note that using VersionControlHelper.service.changeRevision() changes the "Last Modified"
timestamp for all iterations of said revision

>
> *Subject:* [solutions] - Versioning scheme / Bulk load / Unusual customer
>
> *Intro.*
>
> This customer is using WC to manage construction docs, that means they manage paper, scanned paper
> in PDF format.
>
> We are using Arbortext Content Manager for that, once they need revisioning but doesn't need EPM
> documents.
>
> We opted to use bulk load to create the documents in WC, once they have to add tons of documents
> daily basis, we made a load program for them, they just fill an excel sheet with the metadata and
> the program bulk loads it.
>
> *Requirement.*
>
> The requirement is that a document can be loaded into WC in whatever revision it was approved,
> that means they need to load revision E of a document directly as a new document, same for numeric
> revisions, they may receive the revision 11 and load it directly too, the process of approval and
> their revisions are not controled by WC once this happens outside the company, only approved docs
> get in.
>
> A doc can be loaded as approved with alphabetic and numeric revisions depending of where it came
> from, the customer, external engineering office, etc...
>
> *Problem.*
>
> When I have a file based versioning scheme containing only numeric options (0 to 99) it works
> flawlessly, a document can be loaded directly in revision 2 for example, even If I need to load
> the revision 0 after that I can, it will be fixed in the history of the document.
>
> Now my problem is when I add the alphabetic revisions to the versioning scheme, it denies the
> behavior described above, just after adding the alphabetic revisions in game I can only load a new
> document in the A version.
>
> *Any ideas on how to enable this scenario for this customer? See attached the versioning scheme I
> was talking about.*
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Guilherme Rocha
>
> "A goal without a plan is just a wish."
>
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>
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