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Need Save as Draft Button in SharePoint List without creating New Version
- Hi,
Sorry, I forgot that you use list. In list as you said there is no minor or major versions concept. But there is an option 'Keep drafts for the following number of approved versions' which you can try, I haven't tried this option. If the above option doesn't suit you then you have to maintain the draft and the versions using custom code.
The point of versioning in a list is to be able to keep track of the changes that people make. Every time someone edits your list item, that change is tracked as a new version. If you need content approval to track approved vs pending items, you can turn that on. But it comes with other issues, mainly that people don't do it and all your stuff gets stuck in pending limbo.
What exactly is the problem you are trying to solve? Why is it an issue if the list version increments?
Thank you for your response. Each time a when I edit draft a document, version gets incremented.
My requirement is to have version increment for approved documents only. For e.g if a person is drafting a document 5 times and 6th time he sends for approval . I need version as 1 not 6.
Thanks
Annamsoft
Then you need to turn on major/minor drafts and assign someone as approver/publisher. As you edit a document, it will increment 0.1, 0.2. 0.3. etc. When you've all agreed that 0.3 is good, the approver can publish it as 1.0. From there it will increment as 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.
Depending on how you've set up your permissions, you can control who sees/edits draft versions vs the published versions.
This does require DISCIPLINE with the process of reviewing and publishing documents. I've seen too many libraries where this seemed like a good idea at the start and then no one actually published the documents and now there are 100's at version 1.123 or something and the visitors are still only seeing version 1.0.
