[Framers] version numbering and document control

[Mike Wickham]

It seems like the easy solution would be simply to replace month and 
year with year and an incremented number: 2021-1, 2021-2, 2021-3 ... 
2022-1, etc. If you're worried about confusion with the old system, 
maybe wait to the beginning of the next year to start the change.

Mike Wickham

On 2/12/2021 11:08 AM, Lise Bible wrote:
> Hello, Framers,
> Historically (I inherited this system) the manuals for my company have
> listed the month and year as the revision. And that has worked ok, except
> when more than one update needed to happen within a month. And my boss
> wants me to switch to a numbered revision system.
>
> But what has me stymied is, what number do I start with? It doesn't really
> make sense to me to start at 1 because some of these manuals are now 10
> years old and have had multiple revisions/updates.
>
> Any advice?
>
> (My boss also wants me to implement some kind of document control system, a
> la what we do with engineering drawings in Autodesk Vault but that's a
> secondary step and one I have not figured out yet. He has said he wants to
> put manuals in Vault like the drawings are, and I'm still not sure how well
> that would work. I could see maybe uploading pdfs, but I'm thinking doing
> this with the frame files would get messy.)
>
> Thanks,
> Lise