Sharepoint document libraries used for policies and procedures, both administrative and clinical (health care).
version control and approval workflows support legislative requirements and protect against liability issues.
Unfortunately, deleting a document removes all record that it ever existed--all the history goes with it.
I don't have a sandbox right now to verify, but I think it also bypasses the approval workflow.
Legally, for some of these, if we delete it, we still MUST be able to show what the policy was at a particular place/time.
Is there a reasonably simple fix or workaround?
Similarly, if someone changes the filename (which is not hard to do accidentally), both file names need to show the history.
The solution I am recommending to management is to make deletion unavailable from the library. A policy/procedure can be "deleted" by creating a new major version that say it is no longer to be used.
UPDATE: We did take that approach, and it does work. "Deleting" a document is done by making an empty version. The history remains to satisfy the legal folks.