Service Pack 2 available and promising!
If you’re reading this, head over to windows update and start downloading the Office system service pack 2 (available from yesterday – 28th apr). Then you can continue here. I was just going through list of bugs that SP2 fixes (xslx) in Office system and especially in SharePoint Designer (Thanks, Joel for posting link). Just to name couple of which I was already writing about and also wanted to blog about:
- “After you back up a SharePoint Server site that spans multiple CMP files by using SharePoint Designer, you cannot restore the Web site.”
- “Custom list forms do not support attachments.”
- “Editing a page that contains Web parts that participate in Web part connections causes the connections to be broken.”
- “When you restore a SharePoint site from an STP site template, data views are broken because of errors in the GUID.”
- “When you use a data form against a SharePoint Server list that uses lookup fields, SharePoint Server does not submit the form correctly if the lookup source has 20 or more values.”
- “You cannot successfully configure a Web part connection that contains a SharePoint Server filtering Web part.”
And tons more. In the Excel with changes you can find links to all other updates in Office and Office servers SP2.
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Found a new bug with SP2! When I edit a form in Designer there used to be an asterisk appear on the tab above to denote that it needed to be saved. That asterisk no longer appears in some circumstances!
I also find SPD is slower with SP2 installed.
Another bug that I've noticed is that when making CSS it used to nicely close curly braces and insert a line between with one tab indent. Now it inserts a line with couple of tabs. But these are not as terrible as the bugs they've fixed. Let's hope for a quick post-sp2 update.