Turning On Versioning and Approval | SharePoint Tutorial pdf

Turning On Versioning and Approval

The standard Shared Documents library doesn’t include approval status or version history by default. To enable these features:
1. Click Settings -> Document Library Settings and then click Versioning Settings under the General Settings heading on the left side of the page. SharePoint displays the Document Library Versioning Settings page.
2. Change the settings as shown in Figure and click OK.
Figure: Enabling approval and versioning for a library

Versioning is not turned on by default when you create a new document library because it requires additional storage space and because the versioned libraries are slightly harder to use: the versioning process can hide minor revisions and may require files to be checked out before changes can be made. Be sure to explain the your versioning process to those who will be editing documents in these libraries.