I am trying to migrate a SharePoint 2010 workflow to a SharePoint 2016 site using SharePoint Designer.
For this I have followed the steps mentioned on this blog.
Copy/Move SharePoint 2010 designer workflows
- In the first(source) site, create the required workflow and publish it.
- Now select Export to Visio option which allows you to save the workflow with a .vwi extension. (Refer this workflow hereafter as source workflow).
- Now go to the destination site where you want the workflow to be copied, and create a new workflow with the same name as the previous one & publish it.
- Now select Export to Visio option which allows you to save the workflow with a .vwi extension. (Refer this workflow hereafter as Destination workflow).
- Now you will be having two .vwi files (one of source workflow’s – SourceWorkflowName.vwi and other of the destination workflow’s – DestinationWorkflowName.vwi). Now add .zip extension to both the files. Now your files names should be SourceWorkflowName.vwi.zip & DestinationWorkflowName.vwi.zip.
- Now open both the zip files, copy workflow.xoml.wfconfig.xml from destination workflow to source workflow. (Its destination to source and not source to destination).
- From now on, we will not use the file DestinationWorkflowName.vwi.zip. So ignore that file.
- Remove the .zip extension from SourceWorkflowName.vwi.zip which gives you the SourceWorkflowName.vwi file.
- Now, go to the destination site, open workflows and click Import from Visio and browse to the SourceWorkflowName.vwi file.
But when I am importing it to Visio, nothing is happening.
Same thing I tried for SharePoint 2010 workflow, I am able to import a SharePoint 2010 workflow to another SharePoint 2010 site, but not in SharePoint 2016 site.