Watch out with Discard Check Out from within Word
One of our users came to me and told me he lost all of the changes he made to a document checked out from SharePoint, strange thing was, he was sure he had saved the document in between changes.
After investigating this a bit more I recreated what happened:
Consider this first scenario:
- A user checks out a document from SharePoint.
- He edits the document in Word 2007.
- Then he saves it.
- He closes Word 2007.
- Word displays the next question:
Nothing wrong with that, changed are being saved to the document and you can choose to check in the document, but now for the scenario the user had:
- He checks out a document.
- Edits the document in Word 2007.
- Saves the document.
- Changes it some more.
- The last changes are not correct and the user doesn’t want to save these changes.
- He closes Word 2007.
- Word displays the next question:
- User chooses “No” because the last changes are not correct.
- Word 2007 asks another question:
- Now this is a dangerous question.
If the user clicks “Yes” this will mean he will loose lose all of his changes since he checked out the document and NOT only the last changes he made to the document.
