My new pet peeve - final

Chris Maunder

I'm organising some documents and I've realised I have a new pet peeve: putting "Final" in a document name to indicate that it's the final version. In itself this isn't awful. What's awful is: document.docx document - final.docx document - final - DG-comments.docx document - FINAL.docx So which one's the final one? This is why documents need source control... [Edit: Just found:" Copy of Copy of document FINAL.docx". We have a winner!]

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OriginalGriff

Chris Maunder wrote:

So which one's the final one?

The one that's left when I've finished with the delete key...

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Chris Maunder

Precisely!

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PIEBALDconsult

"Final?! Did you say 'final'? Nothing is final until we decide it is!"

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Jorgen Andersson

Put them into the repository, you'll get versioning for free.

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Duncan Edwards Jones

Also - anyone emailing around a doc to multiple people for their updates - thus we have 20 new branches of "Business Plan (Draft) v1.2.docx" to merge back together...

MacSpudster

Well, I know this much ~ The final é in finalé is the finalé of finalé.

Pualee

Haha... I used to have to run around fetching signatures on pointless documents while the more senior programmers were implementing whatever they wanted. I would sort my list of signers by their job title (most important people last). I would fetch signatures from configuration management, software test, test engineering, QA (yes, we had 3 versions of testing), document control, the engineering head, the vp of ... blah blah blah. Anyway, all these people were above me. So the lower ones, who gave me revisions up front... I would implement the revision, bring it back, and then head to the next. Wouldn't you know it, by the time I get to the top, the lower guy is scowling at me because he has to sign it for the umpteenth time, and the only revisions he cared about (his) are gone. I say I'm just doing my job and if he don't sign I'll have to go to the higher ups. ;P I didn't have many friends there. :laugh:

Dan Neely

Before my PM fell in love with Sharepoint (and to be fair, it is easier for non-technical users) we versioned all our office/etc documents with the same tool we used for source control. Diffing was basically a no-go at that time; but we did have proper version history.

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Lost User

Almost as bad as putting "new" to indicate that this is a new version.

devenv exe

At my current work place, we have databases named like below on the same instance of SQL Server 1. Database1 2. Database1 New 3. Database1 Current 4. Database1 Recent 5. Database1 Latest 6. Database1 Real For some reason, no one wants to delete any of them.

"Coming soon"

chriselst

We have live servers with new at the front of the name. I hate to think what we'll have if they need replacing again.

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W Balboos GHB

No version control problems - give them a Wiki. Let them fight it out amongst themselves.

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S Houghtelin

Reminds me off all those Cher FINAL TOUR! tours.

It was broke, so I fixed it.

Kschuler

The one with the most recent maintenance date.

CPallini

Same here, with 'latest'.

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Nish Nishant

The one with the most recent last modified date?

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JimmyRopes

If more than one person will be working on the document simultaneously then source control (like SVN) is the best option. For documents you are working on that others are not contributing to try the following naming convention. It works for me. document20140103.docx document20140131.docx document20140206.docx document20140223.docx document20140316.docx You will always know the latest and greatest version of the document. Well at least the latest version. :cool:

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Chris Maunder

You'd think. Except it isn't. You've had merge conflicts before, right? Same deal.

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Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

Recently while sitting in at the end of a share point configuration provided by a vendor I noticed several copies of an SSRS report in the share. I asked what didn't you enable versioning? The attendees on my side looked perplexed and the "consultant" said, "Yes, I suppose we could have done that. You just can't win!

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