Forum Discussion
Versioning and approving pages
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.
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.
Thing is, working on a page when versioning is turned on you don't get an response to publish to a full version anywhere. You have to and find it in the Site Pages and manually from there approve it.
Being a superuser and editor is hard stuff these days in SharePoint. A standard view should be added for all document libraries/lists which versioning is turned on so we can see which pages are candidates for publishing and approval. And why not toss in a view for pages that are locked by other users. Or a [Me] view in SharePoing start page where I can see pages I have locked for other users.
I get all the new wonderful things but it's hard being an evangelist when the basic needs of managing intranet sites are just not met.