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Versioning and approving pages
I have many issues and I am wondering about the core of SharePoint - using it for intranet uses. Now when we are in the limbo between the new and the old I find myself not being able to solve the need.
I'm building a knowledge base. A lot of users that can contribute and edit document and pages. A few superusers who corrects information and approves it with questions and answers.
New pages are easy to edit and work with but they can't have versions with drafts. It's not possible to have check in/out. Approval of content doesn't work.
I have created an old Community site for QnA since Yammer can't be used, and it is causing issues because it's harder to edit and work with. I want to use the new pages but the most fundemental needs are not met :(
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We are using versioning on new modern pages (in the Site Pages library) with no problems - and it's helpful because sometimes you have to revert to an old version of a page. One thing that I've found helpful is to expose the Promoted State (it is only visible from the "modern" show/hide columns experience) and Version columns in the All Pages view and then edit the view to group by Promoted State. That helps distinguish News pages from "regular" pages if you are using News pages in your site. But all types of pages are versioned by default.
- Versioning is not working as expected. I don't get to choice between publishing drafts or main versions.
And approval is difficult when it's a Group in regards of permissions. I turned on approval of content and there is no change at all.
And once we turn on drafts on document library the synced library gave a message on local OneDrive client that a document library that I had synced was no longer write protected.
What is going on?Check the settings on both Site Pages and your Document Library. This sounds like something is not set up correctly - but doesn't sound like something that can be resolved without looking at what you are doing.
