Approving item makes no new version

Question

In my SharePoint list I have item that I have just approved. I clicked the Approve/Decline button in Edit form, and then chose Approved.

Now when I take a look at Version history, I see that last change was made by me, and with correct time, but version number is still 1.0. Is this behavior correct? How can I change this?

My list has both versioning and moderation enabled. From my elements.xml in List Definition:

<ListTemplate
    VersioningEnabled="TRUE"
    EnableModeration="True"

Answer 1

If dazzles me a little, it seems you did enable Approval however you get still the version 1.0. Are you sure that versioning is enabled?

If you only enable Major, then every Check In and Approve will move to 1.0, 2.0, etc. if you enabled Minor (that is Drafts) then Deepu's explanation is absolutely valid

• Check-In - Minor would increase/overwrite Minor
• ChecIn-Major - would move it to Pending if Content Approval is enabled (with or without Workflow being enabled), once approved, the Draft will disappear (promoted if you want).

Hope if helps, C:\Marius

Answer 2

I believe this is the default behaviour. When a list item is enabled with versioning in SharePoint, you have an option to publish it as a major or minor version. Once the item is published as a major version, the item status changes from "draft" to "Pending".

Now, once the "Pending" document is approved or rejected, there would not be any changes to the version. It just changes the modified by to the person who has approved the document.

To overcome this, you should either stop using the default content approval workflow or start tracking the person modified, by capturing that in a different column.