Basic Version Management

I would like to see basic version management functionality built into LR. This would allow the user to not only create different versions of an image, but keep track of their relationships and status.
As a fine art nature photographer, I might have an original RAW file, a PSD master file, a series of TIFFs optimized for various print sizes, a JPEG for my web gallery, and maybe a different JPEG for slideshows. I can stack these together, but LR doesn't allow me to relate them as different versions of the same image or keep track of their status (maybe the TIFF for a 16x20 print needs more work, but the 11x14 is done).
Ideally, the Version Management would allow the user to set up a list of version types and statuses. Image versions could be moved from one status to another manually or automatically based on rules. An interactive chart could display the version relationships and allow the user to change statuses quickly.
Different versioning templates would be needed for different types of workflow. One might be used in the above example of a landscape photo that has multiple output types and sizes. A different template would be needed for a panorama built from multiple original images but going to the similar types of output.
Full-featured version management might be best left to a 3rd party module, but the versioning and status information would have to be kept in the LR database.
Brent Gilstrap

Jeff,
First may I say, "Thank You" for the excellent LR video tutorial you did with Michael Reichmann. That got me up and running much faster than I expected!
And thank you for taking the time to reply to my request. Getting back to version management, I must disagree with you that this is a simply an old vs. new workflow issue. This is about letting me work around the limitations of LR.
I don't know about you, but I sharpen somewhat differently for different size prints and for different papers. I also print colored borders on many of my prints - the width of the border varies with the print size (and is well beyond the 20pt maximum stroke border in LR). Also, as I use the ImagePrint RIP and often wish to print borderless on roll paper - at times I must go outside the LR print module to get the print output I want (LR + PTAPP does not support borderless on roll paper yet).
I can't imagine that LR will ever be feature-rich or smart enough to support everything I want from within the Develop and Print Modules. Ok, I CAN imagine it, but I'm not expecting mass-marketed software to meet all of my needs. Once LR has expert sharpening & noise reduction, soft proofing, more flexible print borders, etc... I'll re-evaluate the situation.
For now and the foreseeable future, I will need multiple physical files for print output. I can stack these to group them with the original RAW file - but LR would be so much more useful to me if it could also keep track of the use and status of these different files.
Based on your reply... I'm thinking I'm going to have to develop a Version Management module for LR myself. If only LR had scripting. Doh!
-BG

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I make a PO with 1 item and qty 10,now when i save this version 0 is created.
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