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OK, I can't believe this is so freaking hard... I have been playing around with SharePoint 2010 lately and have managed to get the version stamp that SharePoint creates when you do a document check-in to actually display inside an MS Word doc in a coordinated manner so that you don;t have to manually keep the version numbers synchronized between the docs... NOW I want to display the version of the latest checked in document in the file list when you view it in SharePoint. Looking all over on the web the best I can seem to locate is that I end up with an object that I can add to the file list that gives me the version number but the column label is shows as 'Label' and apparently, unless I go write some funky custom code somewhere (still not quite sure exactly where yet) I am stuck with that. My worry is that I am going to want to eventually do something else and end up with another 'Label' column and completely confuse users. Just seems so freaking stupid to me to not automatically be coordinating the version number between two products from the same company. Also, does anyone here understand why the heck there appears to be no integrated version numbering of any type in the other word docs? UGH!
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OK, I can't believe this is so freaking hard... I have been playing around with SharePoint 2010 lately and have managed to get the version stamp that SharePoint creates when you do a document check-in to actually display inside an MS Word doc in a coordinated manner so that you don;t have to manually keep the version numbers synchronized between the docs... NOW I want to display the version of the latest checked in document in the file list when you view it in SharePoint. Looking all over on the web the best I can seem to locate is that I end up with an object that I can add to the file list that gives me the version number but the column label is shows as 'Label' and apparently, unless I go write some funky custom code somewhere (still not quite sure exactly where yet) I am stuck with that. My worry is that I am going to want to eventually do something else and end up with another 'Label' column and completely confuse users. Just seems so freaking stupid to me to not automatically be coordinating the version number between two products from the same company. Also, does anyone here understand why the heck there appears to be no integrated version numbering of any type in the other word docs? UGH!
What site template are you using? Versioning is built-in to publishing sites.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
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What site template are you using? Versioning is built-in to publishing sites.
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt
I'll have to check on that and let you know... I mean that I got version numbering working, and I know that SP handles it. It just seemed like I had to jump through hoops to get the version number generated by SP into the word doc (It is a standard here that we display the docs current version in the text itself), and it seems that the standard 'Version' tag that you can add to the SP file list is the actual Version tag form the MS Word document properties list, not the value that I have propagated into the document from SP. I am just really surprised that the two seem so disconnected form one another. The way I got the SharePoint version number into the document was using this method: http://www.sharepointproconnections.com/community/forums/tabid/1824/aff/187/aft/91185/afv/topic/Default.aspx[^] But now having this last issue displaying this number in the file list is proving to be equally as much of a pain. Like I said, the number makes it there just fine but I don't see a simple way to alter the column header in the list view to say anythign but 'Label' without having to head down into the template code I think. Seems really odd that this is not tighter by now that it is.
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I'll have to check on that and let you know... I mean that I got version numbering working, and I know that SP handles it. It just seemed like I had to jump through hoops to get the version number generated by SP into the word doc (It is a standard here that we display the docs current version in the text itself), and it seems that the standard 'Version' tag that you can add to the SP file list is the actual Version tag form the MS Word document properties list, not the value that I have propagated into the document from SP. I am just really surprised that the two seem so disconnected form one another. The way I got the SharePoint version number into the document was using this method: http://www.sharepointproconnections.com/community/forums/tabid/1824/aff/187/aft/91185/afv/topic/Default.aspx[^] But now having this last issue displaying this number in the file list is proving to be equally as much of a pain. Like I said, the number makes it there just fine but I don't see a simple way to alter the column header in the list view to say anythign but 'Label' without having to head down into the template code I think. Seems really odd that this is not tighter by now that it is.
It's not surprising at all. Just because they are made by the same company, especially Microsoft, doesn't guarantee there is complete synchronicity between them. These are two different products with two different purposes. SharePoint is however highly extensible so you can implement features that may not be included OOB. To get the proper column name to show up you need to modify the contenttype CAML and change the display name. Some things just can't be done via point and click. BTW, perhaps your company should be using Record Center if they aren't already http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mcsnoiwb/archive/2009/11/05/sharepoint-2010-records-management.aspx[^]
I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt