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Turn on versioning by default in Alfresco

After having someone importing a bad document into Alfresco (blowing away the good one in the process), I decided it was time to see how to turn on versioning by default in Alfresco, since the process had changed since version 1.x. Here is how you do it in 2.x:

1. Log on as the admin user.
2. Go to Company Home.
3. Under "More Actions" select "Manage Content Rules".
4. Select "Create Rule".
5. Under "Select Condition" choose "All Items" , then click "Add to List", then click "Next".
6. Under "Select Action" choose "Add aspect to item", then click "Set Values and Add".
7. Under "Set action values" choose "Versionable", then click "OK", then click "Next".
8. On the next page, leave "Inbound" selected, give the rule a title like "Version everything", select "Apply rule to sub spaces", then click "Next".
9. Review the rule. If everything looks good, select "Finish" and you are done.