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Set content approval options for a library

Set content approval options for a library

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Set content approval options for a library

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Libraries are a special kind of list. Therefore, the formatting that we can do in lists also works in libraries, but there are a couple of customizations that, while you can use them in the list, they're almost always used in libraries and they are worth knowing about. So I'm going to my empty documents library here in Wind Installations, and I'm going to show you, first, how to set content approval in a library. To get to this, we'll choose Settings, Library Settings, More Library Settings, and we'll end up on the Document Settings page, which very clearly comes to us from classic SharePoint. It looks really different from the pages that we saw up until this point in this chain of pages. And we're going to choose versioning settings because content approval is kept with versioning. And the first question is, should new items or changes to existing items remain in a draft state until they've been approved? And it's a yes/no question. Let me give you a business case where I have used…

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