We have a site with a very basic workflow for items. It's Draft > Queue for publish (action) > Ready for publish. Authors work on and item, then click "Queue for publish", thus moving the item in to the final "Ready for publish state. We have an agent that is auto publishing, which will pick it up next time around or they can also choose to manually publish the item.
Most of this works, except that when and item is in the final state, my understanding is that the action of editing it, should automatically create a new version and send the item back to draft. This is not happening.
Is there something specific we need to add to workflow to make this happen? Or, is there a step authors need to take to do this. Any other recommendations would be helpful. Thanks.
I have the same experience when I turned off the locking.
Automatically creat a new version by an edit in a workflow works when, you have require locking on.
<!-- REQUIRE LOCK BEFORE EDITING
If true, the user must have a lock on a document before
he can edit it, otherwise it is always ready for editing
-->
<setting name="RequireLockBeforeEditing" value="true"/>
Also a admin have no require locking, and not automatic a new version when edit a item as admin. (same as Trayek say)