{"id":392,"date":"2014-12-15T07:02:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collaboriscom.wpengine.com\/?p=392"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T11:18:49","slug":"when-adding-a-group-or-audience-to-a-document-why-is-a-new-version-of-a-document-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/when-adding-a-group-or-audience-to-a-document-why-is-a-new-version-of-a-document-created\/","title":{"rendered":"When adding a group or audience to a document why is a new version of a document created?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you add (or update) the Readership Audience for a specific document with a SharePoint Group or Audience you\u00a0will create a new version of the document when it is\u00a0saved. We have designed DocRead this way because we\u00a0found that storing (and versioning) the audience as document metadata has these advantages..<\/p>\n

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  1. Each change in audience is recorded in the documents version history \u2013 great for auditing reasons. (Using this and “modified by” you can see who changed what).<\/li>\n
  2. As the audience is stored as metadata, this makes integration with workflow easier. For example, if you want to change a documents readership from a small group to “All company users” this really needs to passed through an approval workflow, rather than just being allowed to do it.<\/li>\n
  3. It makes scripting easier \u2013 for example, it’s quite easy to put together some Powershell to programmatically upload and set the Required Audiences. (see here as an example :\u00a0update-multiple-documents-with-powershell<\/a>)<\/li>\n
  4. Existing customers find it very intuitive and easy to use. If we moved it somewhere else we’d need to think carefully about where would be best without making it confusing.<\/li>\n
  5. If a document (with an assigned DocRead audience) is deleted (or moved), then if you restore it, the information relating to the audience is also restored.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Each change in audience is recorded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-docread-kb","category-knowledgebase","category-sharepoint"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy are new document versions created - Collaboris<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When you add (or update) the Readership Audience for a specific document with a SharePoint Group or Audience you will create a new version of the document when it is saved\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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