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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SharePoint workflow tasks don't wait to be executed
I have created a workflow in Visual Studio which contains a replicator which creates multiple tasks for approval. The replicator contains a sequence activity which is consisted of createTask, a while ...
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How can I remove the 'Open this task…' button from Workflow Task e-mail?
This issue that prompted this question..
As it appears there is no workaround to the workflow task opening constantly issue, is there a way of removing this button from default workflow task e-mails?
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SPListItem.Tasks always empty
I have a custom sharepoint (2007) list (named testlist) on which I attached a test workflow (built with sharepoint designer 2007 and named testwf), which only task defined in the 'Actions' section at ...
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Modify Feedback Workflow to transfer a custom column value from Shared Documents to the Tasks list
I would like to modify the default feedback workflow. I have already made a copy of the workflow and made some minor adjustments to fit my needs. Now I need the work flow to pull the information from ...
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Calling “Reassign task” function
Does anyone know how to reassign a task using code c#? I have a requirement where a user will click on a button and SPUser is passed as a parameter, the workflow task need to be reassigned to a ...
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How to unlock a Task Item after updating it?
I am using Workflow to assign tasks and running another action in parallel to update Task (Tasks created by assign task action).
This piece is working fine. However, the task is staying locked for ...
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Sharepoint doesnt send notifications for tasks
My question is about Sharepoint. I create a workflow via Sharepoint designer, and "Assign a To-do Item" in it. When workflow start it doesn't send any notifications via email. But when I add "Send ...
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Multiple approval Workflow in SharePoint 2007
I know we can develop this custom with a custom button using .NET. But wanted to know what option we have from the native MOSS 2007 product and/or with SharePoint designer workflows.
We have a ...
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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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SP2010 workflow task-mails: invalid html in sended mails
Sometimes (not always) some task-mails are not displayed correctly.
xslt:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" ...
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Check if task has already been submitted on opening InfoPath task form and switching view to reflect so
I am trying to make my custom task form (of Visual Studio Sequential Workflow) to switch view to "Submitted" in case someone has already submitted this task before, since this task could be assigned ...
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Multiple, sequential tasks in one workflow
I have a couple steps in a declarative workflow that each collect data from users. I need each collection task to be completed before the next step kicks off. Is this possible. Also, the workflow is ...
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Sharepoint Task Items
I am using a workflow which generates a task on the creation of new item of list.
I want that task visible to only 'Assigned To' people not the one who create it.
Tell me any way to do this. I have ...
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ontaskchanged Error occured
I'm trying to create a simple workflow containing a while in which you can find : createtaskwithcontenttypes
while
Ontaskchanged
completetask
When I try to launch the workflow by adding a new ...
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How bind a custom ContentType with activity CreateTaskWithContentType ?
When I create a task with activity "CreateTaskWithContentType", I can't bind a custom ContentType with the list "Tasks".
For the moment I try to bind my CT with the correct path in properties ...
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How to use updateAllTasks in a custom workflow
I am making a custom workflow in Visual Studio. I want to use the updateAllTasks workflow item to update all the tasks. I am trying the following in the invoke method.
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Routing Workflow Task Emails to groups based upon List value
I have developed a state machine workflow that is curretly working fine. Although this is working, users are complaining about being bombarded with workflow task emails that don't have anything to do ...
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AlterToDo is not affecting Comments but Affecting other fields
I am facing some creepy error here.
i am trying to alter a task using AlterToDo Method of Workflow.asmx
Here is my code
strTaskdata = "<my:myFields xmlns:my= ...
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Displaying data collected in previous step of workflow in current step
Here is the setup. Creating workflow in Sharepoint Designer with two steps:
1) Collect feedback
2) Collect feedback2
Is there a way that you can display the feedback collected in step 1 on the edit ...
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Assigning Tasks
If I assign a task to an Active Directory group or mailing list, will it autogenerate tasks for each person in that group or mailing list such that they all get an individual task to complete?
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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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Sharepoint 2010 grouping workflow tasks for a document library
We want SharePoint Experts Advice here
What we have :
1- we have one document library ( many items).
2- we have many Tasks assign to document library item by workflow e.g. Require Manager ...
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How to debug the error "This task is currently locked by a running workflow and cannot be edited”?
From time to time, some of my SP2010 site workflows fail with this message:
This task is currently locked by a running workflow and cannot be edited
I believed I have fixed this but from time to ...
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What type of permission user needs in order to approve workflow task?
Is read only permission enough for user to approve a task in workflow? or I need to grant the user contribute rights in order to approve or reject a worfklow task.
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SSL redirect and AAM not working on a Workflow which is using the original/install URL
A year ago, I created our SharePoint site under a test name. I then added an AAM to extend it to our production name. Just a month ago, I added an SSL redirect in IIS which sends all http requests ...
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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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Set the due date on a task at time of creation using Sharepoint Designer?
We are creating tasks in a workflow but we cannot find a way of setting the due date in the same workflow. We resorted to adding a workflow to the task list that adds the due date on item creation.
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Not receiving e-email notification when creating new tasks in a custom sequential workflow
I am setting the AssignedTo and SendEmailNotification properties for the SPWorkflowTaskProperties object, the task gets created and assigned correctly but no email is received.
How can I check if ...
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Workflow and Associated Task Form Names
I have question regarding the InfoPath Forms that autogenerated by the Workflow Tasks. I was wondering if it is possible to give these forms more meaingful names.
The current problem example: If I ...
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Custom Workflow and Task Time Limits
I have created a custom workflow for an approval process. The workflow is designed to accomplish this task by using the “Collect data from user (Output to variable: collect)” action.
I wish to assign ...
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Correct way to fix “This task is currently locked by a running workflow and cannot be edited”
I have a SharePoint 2010 workflow that creates a task. The task has custom form and custom code executed when the form is submitted.
Inside the code I'm trying to set the Completed Status on the task ...
