Bug: Missing items in Tag Summary in RTM

[Blair]

The Note Tag summary feature is much improved over the B2TR version. It's
much faster, and the duplicate entries are gone. However, there is a problem
where all of the entries do not appear. Let's suppose I've created 2 custom
tags, "Group A" and "Group B". It appears that when you start a Tag Summary
from a Page that contains notes with "Group A" tag, then the summary will
find all of the notes that have that same "Group A" Custom Tag. However, some
other notes within the current search scope that have the "Group B" tag may
not be shown. Similarly, if you start the summary from a page containing some
notes with "Group B" tags (but no "Group A" tags), then the summary will show
all "Group B" tagged notes, but none from "Group A". If you start the summary
from a page that contains both "Group A" *and" "Group B", then the summary
will show notes from both groups. So there seems to be some linkage between
what's on the current page and what the summary can find.

In order to work around this problem, I created a bogus page that has one
note flagged with every type of Custom Tag I've created. When I invoke the
summary from that page, then I get the correct result; *all* notes flagged
with any Custom Tag are shown in the summary. OK, that's still consistent
with my observation from above. Now here's the weird part. Once I create this
bogus page, if I go back to one of the pages that only has one type of Custom
Tag (let's say Group A), now the summary shows both A and B flagged notes.

Some things about my install that might have some effect:
1) Upgrade path was 2003 > B2TR > RTM
2) As suggested above, I'm not using just the default Note Tags; I have
several custom Tags
3) If I turn off the "Only show unchecked items" I believe the summary
correctly shows all items.

This is the most productive feature of Onenote for me. Hope it's ironed out
soon...

 

[Daniel Escapa [MS]]

If you have problems with this please log a bug on the Connect site:
http://connect.microsoft.com/onenote

Thank you and take care!

 

[Daniel Escapa [MS]]

Yes that is something we are working on : )

Thank you!

 

[David Lyon]

You or not alone.

I found your workaround helpful. Hopefully, the bug will be gone when they
release the final version later this week.

It seems the problem only arises when I search by tag name.

You can also avoid the problem by changing the search criteria to something
else, and then switchback to search by tag name.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

I don't know about this behavior or how wide it is spread, or if it is a
bug yet to be fixed. I just wanted to comment on the expectation that
the versions of Office/OneNote are different from the RTM ones now
available via MSDN and the trial website.

RTM means "Release to Manufacturing". Once the dev groups reach a
milestone with their development and testing efforts, they will "freeze"
all coding work on that milestone version and that version is that is
then packaged up for both distribution via the web, and distribution via
retail stores. As you can imagine, it takes a while to press the
thousands of retail DVDs, and then an additional amount of time to get
those packages into the various retails stores. During that time,
however, the RTM version is not changed. What you can buy starting this
week, and what you can already download in trial version are the same
binaries and the same version.

So please don't be disappointed that any bugs in the RTM version
available via the web have not disappeared from the RTM version available
this week via retail. They are the same product.