Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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top right navigation bug
There's something wrong with this site's behaviour. When I click on the icons in the top right, for inbox, achievements, list of other sites, etc, the menu opens for a second and then closes again ...
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Why does Stack Exchange forcibly remove my double-space after a full stop? You're erroneously correcting my punctuation!
I've posted a question and found that Stack Exchange is messing up my punctuation. There is supposed to be a double-space after a full stop, so why the punctuation fascism approach on this site?
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I 'can only post once every 40 minutes' but I haven't posted at all today
I was trying to ask a question and being told that I cannot submit it, because "You can only post once every 40 minutes", but I had not posted recently in SharePoint, and my profile only showed a ...
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Is it bounties? or bountied?
The tabs on SP.SE, has a link to questions which has open bounties.
Is "Bountied" written by mistake or a typo? Or I am just overthinking :)
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Flagged posts responded to by people with very low reputation
I'm curious to know how some posts I flagged were seemingly reviewed by users with reputation lower than mine. I can't review flagged posts, yet I have a higher reputation. Seems like a bug?
Here ...
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Am I the only one who has issue with editing the Location in my profile section
Sorry, I am posting this in meta.exchange. I didn't find any other place regarding this issue.
Please refer the screenshot:
Edit: My Console says
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Meta SP.SE new look?
What's up with the new rainbow colors on the Meta page? Is there a reason behind that? StackOverflow or ServerFault metas don't have that. Is this something the mods changed?
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Why score is reduced on voting down for the person reporting?
I noticed that if I vote down to a spam or invalid/ incorrect answer or question, even my score is reduced. Users reporting vote down are helping site from spam or incorrect or misguiding information.
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Missing wiki tag edits toward Research Assistant
I have made edits / contributions to a few tags and under the Research Assistant badge it shows that I have completed zero. Am I missing something?
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Possible bug - Share a link to this question via email, , , or
So, I just posted a question on Sharepoint SE, but as I went down the page, I took note of a text:
Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email,
, , or .
Is this normal? ...
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Whats going with the question count?
I just noticed over the past months a lot of not so interesting questions hit the "Famous Question" 10.000 View count: https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/help/badges/37/famous-question
Which is a ...
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can't upload images in question
While asking a question on SharePoint StackExchange, I was trying to upload screenshot related to that question, but couldn't.
I clicked on Image button above text editor > dragged the image in upload ...
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Flair: Missing Profile Picture in dark theme
I awant to use the dark theme in my flair. However, when I am changing the default theme to dark using ?theme=dark the profile picture on the flair goes missing.
What could be causing this and how do ...
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A lot of views in a very short time
I know this isn't one of the most trafficked SEs out there so found this to be a little out of the ordinary.
This post, Get number of new emails from Microsoft Exchange server in SharePoint, has ...
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What's going on with the Late Answers? 701 in the queue?
Opened up the review queue and this is what I see.
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Why is the site SharePoint Stack Exchange not to be found using Bing Search?
Not really sure if this should be posted here:
For some reason I'm unable to find the homepage of SharePoint Stack Exchange using the keywords "SharePoint Stack Exchange".
I'm able to find the ...
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Search within code block
When I try to search the term 'ActivityNotFoundException' SP SE returns 0 search results. But posts containing this term actually exist (e.g. "The activity named 'WorkflowXaml_GUID' from ...
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Misleading information from Review Links on top bar
Today I saw a strange thing, on the top bar before the Review there is the number 3 (total post awaiting review) with orange color (which I understand is 3 items in the review queue) but when I click ...
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Suggested Edits review queue
I am one of the top reviewers on all queues except Suggested Edits, I hardly ever see any. I am doing review queues every time I open a new browser tab (its my default new tab), yet I only have had 94 ...
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Elections notification?
I just got a message in my SE inbox telling me I needed to vote in the SP:SE moderator elections... but I don't see that actually going on and now the message has disappeared?! I'm more than a little ...
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How to revert back the flag.?
Today while checking the availabe options in flag, unknowingly I flaged the following question,
List Service CheckInFile clears the values of managed metadata fields
How to revert it, I dont want ...
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SharePoint site icon background on Stack Exchange site
I am aware of this questions: Transparent FavIcon in chrome
It does not solve the issue.
On this site the icon for the SharePoint.stackexchange.com appears with a black background. For example on ...
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New top bar FUBAR in IE on SPSE
The new top bar is nice, but it really is messed up graphic-wise in IE 11.
In SO it also caps the characters that go below the baseline.
Who are responsible for the new CSS and how do we get it fixed?...
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Top Bar Chat login bug
I am logged into SharePoint.StackExchange and whenever I use the top bar to get into the SharePoint chat, it doesn't automatically log me in, stating that I need to log in to an existing StackExchange ...
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Minor design issue with IE8 and "Explore Our Questions" display
Nothing major but I thought I would point out a display issue in IE8, best demonstrated with a screenshot:
That text in these tags appears to run outside of them and not display correctly. Likely a ...
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When we change our name, our name on community wiki posts doesn't change
I was going through one of my old post and figured out it still showing my old display name even though rest of posts by me are showing correct names,
Books Recommended for Beginner SharePoint ...
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Formatting off the side
How to fix the access issue with Timer JobDefinition Page - SP2010?
This question for me is way off to the side of the page. I am using IE9. Chrome and FireFox work fine.:
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Possible bug on the flag question popup screen
I am experiencing a strange issue in the flag question screen. The screen seems to be working right, but if I select the option "this question does not belong here" the screen closes automagically ...
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Odd login/authentication
I've noticed that on most SE sites, I've got ▾dwwilson66 2168 | review | chat | meta | about | faq just the the left of the search box in the upper right corner (highlighted)
However, not on the ...
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autocomment (trivial answer) bug
I've tried 6 times to post my answer to
Cannot edit Initiation Form of Designer Workflows with InfoPath
and it repeatedly was being posted as comment instead (I removed duplicated comments ...
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Missing bounty question
My bounty that I made several days ago has disappeared, and my reputation has been given back to me. I didn't close the question or the bounty. My Reputation tab used to have -100 on it and it ...
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Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days don't work properly
I have been visiting this SE SO website over a month now but still didn't get this silver badge, I looked at calender and it shows I have been visiting this website on Monday - Friday basis.
I guess ...
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Why was I awarded the Vox Populi Badge?
It says I used the maximum of 40 votes in a day but I've only voted on a couple of things in the last 48 hours. Is something being updated or do I simply not understand the badge?
The page that ...
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Theme broke a small piece of functionality
Before the site was reskinned, which is great by the way, there used to be an indicator that would appear up in the meta/review/chat area that indicated if there were edits needing approval. This ...
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Weird wrapping issue with answer titles in profile?
I noticed while browsing Alex's profile that something is weird with the way the answer title and votes are wrapping.
It looks fine on my profile though:
Bug?
Edit: This is also happening on David ...
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Display of profile page
First off, I don't know where we are supposed to report problems with site, so I am putting it here. Two quick items:
On the old site, I thought there was a link to your profile. Where did the link ...
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Links in the right sidebar are hard to see
This is particularly prevalent in the Similar Questions sidebar:
I find it very hard to distinguish the link text from the background which looks too dark to me.
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Transparent FavIcon in chrome
First: I like the new design! It is great.
One minor detail is the FavIcon color and its transparency. In my list of tabs and bookmarks it is dull and doesn't stand out. (I'm using Chrome here)
In ...
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Missing centre-right section of header
In the very top header, I can only see the SuperCollider dropdown on the left and the search box on the right, no user details/chat/main/about/faq in between. I can see they're still there in the ...
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Background of highlighting on "How to Answer" covers text
On the How to Answer page the yellow highlight background covers the text above:
Tested on Google Chrome 13.
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"Asked" box bleeds into feed link
Browsing to the bottom of this page shows the "asked" box over the top of the feed link:
Tested in Google Chrome 13.
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"Asked" box background bleeds into related questions
In the bottom-right corner of a question, the background of the "asked by" box bleeds into the list of related questions:
(By the way, I'm using Google Chrome 13 when reporting these bugs.)
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Wrapping titles don't line up on the left correctly
Noticed on questions with titles that wrap over to the next line (e.g. this one) that the spacing doesn't line up correctly on the left:
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Problem with MOSS tag
When I try to flag a question with MOSS, it tells me: sorry, the 'sharepoint-2007' tag is not allowed. The 'sharepoint-2007' tag is new...
I realize that I can't create tags yet but it seems like the ...
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Can the off-topic close description please be corrected?
I closed a question and was greeted with this message:
Can those empty references please be corrected? It should probably say:
Questions on SharePoint are expected to generally
relate to ...
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