InofPath Workflow; GroupID, Error Message: Group cannot be found

Question

I have created an InfoPath form workflow in designer. It is a simple workflow which uses the "Collect data from user" task. It requires that the user supply a choice: "Approve" or "Reject", and select a person using a group\people picker.

The workflow executed fine for the first day or so, but now is failing after the first task.

It returns a System\Administrator error to the workflow progress page, but is very under descriptive in the issue.

In the log we found:

Failed to get SPGroupName from GroupID. Error Message: Group cannot be found. Callstack: at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGroupCollection.GetByID(Int32 id) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.PeopleEditor.set_SharePointGroupID(Int32 value).

I have run a search for this on the web and have returned a lot of similar results but no solution.

Any Ideas? Similar Situations? Work abounds etc.?

Answer 1

I had also faced this issue earlier. The form requires multiple approval and I was capturing the different approver inside infopath form. The issue was coming when I was taking the display name of the approver. The issue got away when i tried taking accountId of the approver. Hope this solve ur problem.