API for assigning guestbook to dataset should create a draft version
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Description
What steps does it take to reproduce the issue?
The PUT /api/datasets/{identifier}/guestbook API currently updates the dataset-level guestbook_id directly without creating a dataset draft version.
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Which page(s) does it occurs on?
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What happens?
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To whom does it occur (all users, curators, superusers)?
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What did you expect to happen?
a new draft version should be created with the assigned guestbook, rather than assigning it to the published version.
Which version of Dataverse are you using?
6.11
Any related open or closed issues to this bug report?
Related to this frontend issue: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-frontend/issues/977
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