Once again I have a situation where version numbers are interfering with my organization's communications.

Now, we all know that sending links rather than attachments in email is the way to go. We sent one today to 500 people and realized that the date on the linked form is wrong. Rather than spam everyone with an new email, we decided just to edit the linked form. Hey, that's the benefit of sending links over attachments, right? WRONG for ZOHO wiki! Now the link in people's email is broken! Why? Because the URL contains the old version number.

I tried to delete the document and clear the wiki trash. But when I uploaded the document again, it somehow remembered the deleted one and increased the version number! Now at version 1.6, I gave up and decided to complain in the Forum.

If you look at how SharePoint deals with this, the link to a document (even if it's version 946) never breaks. That's because the versions are typically hidden. There's no reason to let most people know what version a thing is. Who really cares? This is how ZOHO wiki should work. The url to a document should NOT contain a version number. It should look like this:

http://mysite.org/attach/Forms-and-Flyers/Bookstore.doc

If, for some obscure and obtuse reason one needs to send a link to a specific version, a Version Wiew would provide that.

Better yet, give me the power to turn-off versions, like with SharePoint.

This is how it looks in SharePoint: Clicking Version History opens a new window where you can see the old ones, and if need be link to them. The latest version always has the same url as long as the file name does not change.