SPR 283413 did not fix the serious issue of design tables randomly changing values.
When will SW quit adding marketing features like the dim palette and fix the serious problems? Once again I have spent days trying to recover from this bug.
Is no one else having this issue with design tables being unstable, unreliable and more often than not, uneditable?
yet another meaningless error, come on SW, where the quality control?
I had problems with SP1 using a design table to drive part configurations from an assembly configuration. The problem was that the design table would not include all of the configurations that were added to the Excel list. Half of them just disappeared into thin air. I no longer have the problem in SP 2 and that is probably because of your hard work David. Thankyou.
I have not seen this latest problem....yet.
are you using win7 x64?
i am told that this is an issue specific to Win7 x64.
well, design tables still cannot be edited, even with the office repair. for me this is a very serious problem.
i have submitted this issue to my VAR and thru various communications they raised the impact to "critical" yet i do not feel this is an issue SW is making and effort to fix.
the comments under my spr list, states this issue was fixed in SPR 518650, was marked as REPAIRED in 2009 SP05 (1 was not this was an issue in 2009) and was marked as REPAIRED in 2010 SP02 and was marked as REPAIRED in 2010 SP02.1 and was marked as REPAIRED in 2010 SP03 and was marked as REPAIRED in 2011 a1.
When will it be marked as "Fixed" if SW cannot work with excel, then it needs to come up with an alternative solution that does not cost the user more money.
this is issue has left me and my clients with no ability to edit design tables. SW has nno work arounds other than deleting a design table and inserting a new one in order to edit it.
i consider this issue going unresolved unacceptable. is effecting the ability of my clients to do business and be competitive. i wonder what software the competition is using?
SW, we need a hotfix for this issue now, not in SW 2011.
How's this for fun, I've reverted back to SW2008 because of the stress 2010 was causing me, and now since I installed SW2010, now I can't insert design tables anymore in SW2008. Nice. Maybe they are not related, but that was the timing.
Hmmm, that's possibly a clue to the cause.
I haven't had any design table problems. I've used all SP's from 2008 to 2010. I'm running Win XP32, Office XP (2002).
How about you guys?
I'm running 2010 x64 SP3.1, WIN Vista x64, Office 2007. Design tables seem to work fine, did the repair once because I saw it in previous discussions. But my design tables may have 20 columns max, anywhere from 2 to 50 rows. Don't know if that may be small compared to those of you having issues.
This issue rears its ugly head when used in conjunction with PDM (E/W) and having documents loaded read only. When those documents are loaded read only and someone decides to attempt to view/edit the Design Table, it is generally corrupted and has to be deleted/recreated to be repaired. The ReadOnly status is not obeyed with regard to the embedded file, however durin the reembed, everything goes fubar.
Microsoft Office is also a PITA which after a decade and a half is still a half baked octopus of functionality without reliability.
Dave,
You should post that second one in the error messages thread. It's a classic!
I have gotten this error when excel is still open with a different document prior to trying to edit or create a design table.
Simply close excel completely before working with design tables and the error goes away and things work again.
so, this is my second bug fix request for SW2010 design tables. SPR 518650 is supposed to fix the issue of not being able to edit design tables. SW suggests the workaround is to delete them, then recreate them. this is not a feasible workaround. my VAR did good work getting this issue rasied to critical.