Sharepoint list owshiddenversion property (Json)

[mikelpower]

Hello,

I am buiding a flow where I use the version history of a sharepoint list following the process described on the link (http://johnliu.net/blog/2018/5/microsoft-flow-sharepoint-trigger-on-specific-fields-changed-via-sp-h...).

In this tutorial they use the "VersionLabel" property, buy looking into the Json of versions I realize that there is another property that may be more interesting (is a number, not a string), this property is "owshiddenversion".

I see that in some point of the historical versions of the list I am working with, the number of owshiddenversion is higher than VersionLabel.

Do you think I could use owshiddenversion?

What is the difference between both?

Regards!

[aprildunnam]

The way I understand the owshiddenversion is it isn't tied to versioning.  It's a special property that SharePoint uses to aid in conflict detection.  It's how SharePoint tells if you are trying to update an old version of a form.  For example, say you and I are in the edit screen for the same record in SharePoint at the same time.  If you save your change before me  then i go in to save my change, the owshiddenversion property is going to kick in and throw an error because I'm in an older version of the form.  When I loaded the form it was owshiddenversion 0 but after you saved it then it became version 1.  When I got to save mine it does a check for the most recent version and if they don't match is detects a conflict.  So to answer your question, no i don't think you should use that property instead because the use case is different.