Publishing a major version of a document

SharePoint document libraries support the concept of publishing. Documents are created as drafts and can be published (as a major version) to make them visible to others. This recipe shows you how.

Getting ready

This recipe works for:

• SharePoint 2010 Foundation

• SharePoint 2010 Standard Edition

• SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Edition

• Office 365 (SharePoint Online)

You will need a SharePoint site with a document library with major and minor versioning enabled (see the previous recipe for instructions how to do this). This recipe uses a SharePoint 2010 Team Site for illustration.

You will need the De sign or Full Control permission level to run this recipe.

How to do it...

1. Open the SharePoint Team Site containing the document you want to publish.

2. Open the Shared Documents link in the Quick Launch menu.

3. Select the Documents tab in the Library Tools ribbon.

4. Click on the checkbox for the document that you want to publish.

5. Click on the Publish icon in the ribbon.

   

6. The Publish...