Folder copying issue

tsconsultant

hi all,

whenever we copy a document folder , we will lose the versions and history information of the documents, Is there anyway to copy the folder with the versions and history of the document.

But if we move the document folder , we can get all the documents with versions and history information.

my requirement is to have the versions and history info when we copy the document folder.

EugeneBBN

I don't think there is a way to do this through the applications. You'll need to develop a separate tool using the WOM API to do this which would read the history entries of the original files then do a history insert for the copied file. Even if you do this, I don't think you will be able to preserve the original history datetime stamp since I think that entry is done by the server.

You may want to go back to the drawing board on this and think if you really want this information. IMHO, it creates an audit problem. The purpose of the object history is to have an audiable record of the activity of an object. If you copy the activity of one object and apply it to a completely new object, then that activity is no valid and thereby does not stand an audit.

Just a thought in case you have not considered that yet.

What you could do (if you develop an application to do the copy) is insert a history record with a notation of the original file it was copied from thereby creating a reference from the original to see the history of that object.