A Task is an activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time or by a deadline.
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Assigning a Task to a User From Lookup In Another List
I have a list with several fields, one being an ID (single line text) and another an Approver (person/group). I then have another list where the ID is the source for a lookup. What I would like to ...
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How to add additional workflow task in SharePoint workflow?
I am developing a sequence workflow. It contains a Replicator and its InitialChildData property is bound to the list of strings representing users. The activity that gets replicated is the workflow ...
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How can I have a user attach a file to a workflow task?
I'm using sharepoint designer 2010, custom list.
I have created workflow on that list.
I need to enable the user to enclose a file to the workflow task:
What kind of task I need to use?
P.S.
I'm ...
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Randomly: Item does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user
I have a rather curious issue with some workflow tasks.
My (state machine) workflow creates a handful of tasks while running. Users interact with the tasks to move the workflow between its states. ...
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Color Code Due Date for All Tasks?
I am trying to format a Tasks list in SharePoint 2010 using Sharepoint Designer using the following settings under conditional formatting.
Field > Due Date = Less Than > Value = Current Date
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Special Permissions on task
I'm having a problem with 'SpecialPermissions' its underlined in red (last line of code)
Error 1 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowTaskProperties' does not contain a definition for ...
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Unable to end a workflow on a list
I've got a SP workflow issue that I'm struggling with.
I've got a list and a task list, a user submits an item to the list then a task is created which is automatically assigned to the "admin". After ...
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Update Custom InfoPath Task Form on Forms Library item update
The problem statement is quite simple actually but i guess i am just very new to Custom workflows and InfoPath.
This is what i do with my code:
Use a custom infoPath form to save values into a ...
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Design Workflow that Emails People in Assigned To (Except for Created By)
We have a custom list that tracks work tasks in our department; we track our own work and use it to assign work/tasks to other colleagues.
I have a people/groups column called AssignedTo and need a ...
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How to get approval status of a list item as a column to that list?
I have a Calendar list and an approval workflow. The workflow is initiated when a new item is added. The event gets approved in the task list. I want to get that "Outcome" column to the list. But when ...
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How do you update the task message links?
I have a Form Library that a feedback workflow is attached to. The issue is, every task the gets generated, embeddes a link to the file for which the workflow is running. Problem is, since this is a ...
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Custom Task Process
I am trying to create a custom task process using SharePoint Designer. Once the approver approves the task, the approver should be able to select a person/group that will be notified of this outcome.
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Canceling Workflow (Task Process) from Infopath
I have a workflow (in SP2010) Task Process that I need to be able to cancel. I had a parallel action in the "When the Task Process Is Running" that checked for Item deletion or a field change.
Run ...
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Linking Approval Tasks on List Items with SharePoint Designer Workflows
I have a simple approval process that I built with SharePoint Designer 2010. It starts by assigning a task to the user. The user simply approves and rejects the task. Based on the status an email ...
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Load All Task Items in to Page?
I have Task list in home page containing multiple task items,
Is it possible to approve multiple items at once, instead of one at a time (being redirected to the start page after each approval..) ?
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Ways of implementing “Change Requests” behaviour in SPD 2013 workflow
I am implementing SPD 2013 workflow and have to add possibility to change requests in every task. In SPD2010 WFs we could set the Change Requests button and it created all the behaviour behind the ...
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How to alter SP2013 workflow task from an ASP task form?
I have created SPD workflow with a custom ASP form. My form opens when clicking on a task link and I can show information about the task. Now I want to alter the task after pressing a button, but ...
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ListData.svc and Task Approval
How can I approve a workflow task using the ListData.svc? I am attempting to just set the value of ApprovalValue to "Approved" but this is not working at all. Any help you can give will probably save ...
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How to mark a group task as complete if any member of the group completes it?
I created a group in SharePoint of three people who can publish documents. Then I created a workflow that assigns a task to that group when a document needs to be published.
If any of those three ...
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“Send email when ownership is assigned?” Due Date functionality
I'm writing a blog article about the above feature (under lists' Advanced settings) and I'm finding it goshdarn hard to find a definitive reference on the subject.
In short, I've heard passing ...
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Deleted Workflows Still Sending Emails
All! I have an issue that neither I nor the contractors that I have working for me have been able to figure out, and I'm hoping you all might be able to help me.
I have several users that are getting ...
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Stop user adding tasks to document approval tasks list
I explained to the users of my SharePoint to upload a document to the library and start the Approval workflow. All was going well until one user went to the tasks list, created a new task and attached ...
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SP 2010: How to print comments collected in workfloow, in email
I have setup my first SharePoint Foundation 2010 system but I have hit a wall with regards to a workflow I have created.
In the workflow, I collect two fields "Approval Status" and "Manager Notes," ...
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How to set start and end date in Timeline webpart in SharePoint 2013?
So here is the scenario. I want to "hijack" the Timeline webpart used for project sites in SP2013 and set a fixed start and end date. There is an option to lock the timeline in it's current state in ...
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SP2013 Is there a way to connect to task list with outlook 2013
is there a way to sync a task list to office 2013 and office 2010 in an Exchange 2010 environment? Or the only way to get it to work is to upgrade Exchange to 2013?
Just want a confirmation on that!
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Show all tasks from user
How can I make a list with all Tasks? It is possible to use the MyTasks webpart, this is after changing a list of all task within the sitecollection.
But i want a list of all tasks of multiple ...
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Workflow form display error
I am trying to create a workflow that has an approval process. Once i create the workflow and start it. I get a task added in a Task list but when i try to view it i get this error.
The form ...
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SharePoint2013 “Start Task Process” workflow activity
The problem is the following: I need to create a workflow using sharepoint designer, which will create tasks for chosen users and after, will send them email notifications, where every email will ...
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Tasks and SubTasks with CSOM
I have a Sharepoint 2013 Tasks App which I am accessing using CSOM. It contains SubTasks. I would like firstly (1) to get the Tasks excluding the SubTasks, and then (2) when I get a Task, to get it's ...
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Linked Data Source problems
I have some few questions regarding how to make Linked Data Sources work.
Is there a way to have the column headers be able to sort by
ascending or descending (this is not too important but is ...
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SharePoint 2007 - False task assignment e-mails
I am experiencing a problem with the workflow that is currently being used to manage review tasks on some document. Once the workflow starts, false task assignment e-mails are sent to the requester ...
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Workflow doesnt start anymore after add new item, how can I find the problem?
I am using sharepoint 2010 and created a visual studio workflow which is creating some tasks and assign it to some user or group. I have deploy for a couple of 3 times new versions to my environment. ...
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Cannot edit task list item after completed/no “save as draft” for task forms
I have built a SPD workflow in SP2010 (collect data from user) that collects a single text field from the user (this is just a test case, my real task form has many more fields).
When the user ...
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How to add a lookup field to workflow custom task form?
I'm trying to create a task in a workflow which collects data from user with sp designer 2010.
Some predefined available type for custom form fields single line of text, choice and such things.
I want ...
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Can I set my own subject in the task notification email
I have created a workflow which is creating tasks and sets the body, subject and assigned to some user or group.
SharePoint is adding some extra text to my subject. This is the text:
"has been ...
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Why I got this task email subject: “has been assigned to you again”?
I have a workflow which is creating tasks. When creating these tasks I set the title, body, status etc fields. When the workflow start It creates the task and I will receive an email because the task ...
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Order Tasks in a List View
I'm new to Sharepoint. Google hasn't given me a straight answer on this so hoping to find it here.
Can I custom order a Task list view?
In case that is not clear, I would like to order tasks in a ...
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Is it possible to set a value when collecting a task from a user
This is probably quite simple, yet i'm struggling to come up with an answer.
I have:
List A: Requests
List B: Approval Tasks
When a request is created a workflow starts that in step one "Collects ...
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Custom Task assigned to multiple users in SP 2010
I have a first SharePoint List that contains two columns:
Name of the application
Name(s) of the developer(s)
There is a second SharePoint List that fires a Sequential Workflow in Visual Studio ...
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Overdue task email notifications out of the box?
I've created a simple SharePoint 2010 Designer workflow that starts the approval process on a document library. It assigns workflow tasks to users just fine and e-mails the initiator when the workflow ...
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Receive a task notification for any task assigned to you - your group or not
Is there a general place to set up notifications on tasks so that anyone who has a task assigned to them will receive a notification - not dependant on if they have set up an alert for that list or ...
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'projectTaskButtonAppName' is undefined when clicking List tab in Ribbon
I am getting the following Javascript error when clicking on the List tab in the SP2010 ribbon for a Project Task list that I have placed into a webpart on the default.aspx page:
Webpage error ...
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Remove text on task popup
With a workflow added to a document, is it possible to remove the text "This workflow task applies to " on the task popup?
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Workflow Task URL Link
I have created a custom approval workflow with Visual Studio 2010 for Sharepoint 2007 using WSPBuilder, everything works fine, however I’ve been asked to customise the E-mail, which is also ok, the ...
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Sorting tasks by due date?
We're using SharePoint's Microsoft Project-like functionality for a small project. I've entered the list of tasks into the system, and it's producing a nice little Gant chart.
The problem is my tasks ...
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create content type from workflow task
I have been looking all over the internet for instructions on how to create a content type based off the Workflow Task type. Everything I have found thus far seems like it is incomplete or has gaps ...
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SPD Workflow Approval Task- Unexpected Error When Viewing Task
I have a SPD 2010 workflow that is starting an approval process and assigning a task to a user. I'm running into an odd issue. When a user with contribute permissions on the Task list tries to view ...
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SPD Workflow not looping on item changed
I have a reminder workflow on a task list. It simply checks if the task has been completed and then sends a reminder email if it hasn't. It then pauses for a period of time and then updates a field in ...
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Grouping task so that one email will be sent for the group of task
I need to group all the task assigned to one person. This could be 50 task assigned at one time. At which point I want to alert the task owner that they have all these task assigned to them as well as ...
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How to programmatically restart a workflow
I have a workflow linked to my list. Is there any programmatically way to select a list item and restart the associated workflow?
Something like:
SPListItem item = List.Items.GetById(1);
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