What is Revision Control Anyway?
Revision control is an aspect of document control wherein changes to documents are identified by incrementing an associated number or letter code. This code is known as the “revision level”, or simply “revision”. This convention was originally established to maintain engineering drawings. A simple form of revision control, for example, has the initial release of a document assigned the revision level “A”. When the first change is made, the revision level is changed to “B” and so on. DocLink provides this type of control for all of your documents. Multiple user systems without revision control often experience the scenario where multiple copies of the same document are floating around all being modified simultaneously. The changes then must be aggregated back into the original copy and there can be great confusion as to which copy is “official”. With DocLink the revision history is maintained. Users download the latest version of a document by default. The “Show All Revs” feature allows