Document version management

Question

Hi all,

I am working in sharepoint site. In this site there is a user requirment where user want see the version numbers maintain by sharepoint in its OOB versioning feature in a document itself.

SO as the document ge modified sharepoint maintains the version number for each updation. User want to see that vesion number in that document itself as a text.

Can anyOne tell me Is it possible in sharepoint..? If yes the what will be best approch ro do it..?

Can I use document parser in this case..?

Thansks in advance Sachin

Answer 1

I guess there is no OOTB solution for this. You can make use of item receiver to open the document and add the version manually into the document. Check out the following link to work with word documents.

Working with word documents in C#

Answer 2

There is a way to have the version of a document shown directly inside that document, at least for Word documents: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/508229/how-can-i-include-value-of-sharepoints-version-column-in-a-word-document/590444#590444

If you don't want to do this for every new document manually, you can create a template document from it and set it as default in your library.