Collective work with documents

Document libraries in the intranet are designed to enable collaboration on documents among any number of users. This means that user having access to a particular library can perform a variety of actions on the documents, not just creating and editing. Workflows, history, versions, commentary and other tools can be employed on each document. Each time a document is edited, an historic version is created which can be recovered at any time. This allows roll-back to any previous version of the document.

Restoring previous versions of a document

All editions of the Bitrix Intranet support business processes in document libraries. Using business process, documents can be approved, assigned for reading, modified, and sent back and forth between responsible parties when there are complex issues to resolve before final approval. Tools that accompany this feature include a discussion thread for each document and a log of the business process progress.

Lauching a business process to approve a document

Collective work in documents is facilitated by:

• workflow in a united document archive with an organized chain of approval and statuses;
• historical versions of document in all document libraries (personal, group, and global);
• creation of copies of documents within document libraries;
• several standard business process and a visual process modeler BizPace edition;
• discussion thread for each document;
• email notifications of new entries in the discussion thread, and changes to documents in workgroups.

More details about the functions of document libraries can be found at Public Documents.