Saving to existing Document Item w/ Office Connector

Hi there, At the moment I'm looking into the Office Connector with the goal to implement it for our business. Currently I'm only managing to save files to ARAS as new Document items. I.e. I have a .docx file appended to Document item Doc-001, open it in Word using the "Open in Office" action, edit it and then use the "Save and close" button in the ARAS ribbon in Word to save my changes to the file and upload it back to ARAS. Rather than create a new generation for my Document item and replace the old file relation with a relation to the updated file ARAS simply creates a new Document item (say Doc-002). This clutters up the maingrid with a number of versions of the same file. Edit a file 10 times and Doc-001 to Doc-010 are different versions of the same file. Work on multiple files and Doc-001 to Doc-999 are numerous versions of numerous files without much of a pattern to it. Am I just configuring things wrongly here and is there a way to force the desired behavior or will I have to write custom methods to take care of all of this? Kindest regards, Remco van Oosterhout
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  • Hello, I'm not able to reproduce this issue in a test instance of 11.0 SP12 I have set up. If I use the "Open" button in the Aras ribbon within Word to open an existing document, that same document is edited when I click "Save and Close". Could you let me know which version of Innovator and the Office Connector you are using. You can find the Office Connector version by clicking Help > About in the Aras ribbon within an office application. Chris
    Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer
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  • Hello, I'm not able to reproduce this issue in a test instance of 11.0 SP12 I have set up. If I use the "Open" button in the Aras ribbon within Word to open an existing document, that same document is edited when I click "Save and Close". Could you let me know which version of Innovator and the Office Connector you are using. You can find the Office Connector version by clicking Help > About in the Aras ribbon within an office application. Chris
    Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer
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