Enable minor edits to a published article without creating a new version

[amarks]

I'm hoping someone can confirm the use case on this, because the documentation isn't explicit:

The article describes the ability to make minor changes to an article without republishing the article.  How are minor edits defined?  I'm taking it to mean they are giving the ability to exclude fields from triggering a version update.  Thereby, you defined a field as a "minor edits" field by listing it in the glide.knowman.versioning.minor_edit_fields variable. Is that correct?

Thanks,

Adam

[Arnaldo]

Hello Amarks
I can also confirm what other already did.
Likely you have also to consider to configure other settings accordingly to your setup.

We have enabled the glide.knowman.versioning.enable_minor_edits =  true

and we have listed the fields we want to exclude for  generation of new version 

glide.knowman.versioning.minor_edit_fields = valid_to,author,meta,kb_category

Then we have set other 2 properties in combination : 

• glide.knowman.ownership_group.enabled =true ==> Enable ownership group for Knowledge articles.[Note: After enabling this property, it is not recommended to disable it.]
• glide.knowman.ownership_group.override= true  ==> Retain contribute access for author or reviser of knowledge article linked to ownership group.
  

The result of that is that any member of ownership group is able to update Minor changes fields, without creating version. Author can still maintain the article but he is forced to checkout the article and not enabled to update minor change fields. Personally I submitted Idea to ServiceNow to evaluate this condition and make author available to maintain the article like a ownership group member.