MOSS 2007 versioning bug... Please help
- From: jkahsen@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 10 Jan 2007 11:41:12 -0800
So, I came across a 'feature' this morning and wanted to see if anyone
had discovered the same issue. It appears that MOSS 2007 and Office
don't cooperate too well when a document is saved multiple times in the
same Office session.
On a document library with version control set, I found that when a
document (Word or Excel, for example) was first saved, it created
version 1 (or 0.1 if using minor versioning). If I updated the
document and clicked save again, it went to version 2. This is when
everything went south. If I then updated the document again and
clicked save, the document STAYED ON VERSION 2. If I updated it again
and saved it again, it then went to version 3. From that point on,
Sharepoint only created a new version every OTHER time I saved it.
I confirmed it on a few other systems and with a Microsoft support
engineer on the phone yesterday. I know that we can work around it by
closing the document and re-opening to make changes, but is that really
safe to expect that users will remember to do that? I also know that
this isn't a problem if I physically check out the file before I update
it. But if the document library does not require files to be checked
out - as is the requirement with many of our customers - this is a
potentially crippling issue.
Any input would be appreciated here.
Also, if you want to get a kick out of something, map a drive to a MOSS
2007 document library. Open up notepad and save a file to the document
library. In Windows XP and before, it creates two revisions each time
it's saved. Looks like the issue is resolved with Vista.
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