Three of the six workflows that are on one of my site collections in SharePoint 2010 are resulting in "Failed on Start" as soon as a document is submitted to a document library. The other three workflows work perfectly fine. So far, I have been unable to resolve the issue, and I see nothing in the ULS logs, nor the Windows event logs.
Details
- All site collections are under the same web application (claims-enabled, HTTPS).
- Only one site collection has this problem - all other site collections work fine.
- All of the workflows are "out of the box" and are native to SharePoint.
- Each workflow is applied to it's own document library: "My Docs (Approval)", "My Docs (Feedback)", "My Docs (Three-State)", etc to ensure that none of the workflows interfere with each other.
- No SharePoint Designer workflows have been created.
Troubleshooting:
- At first, I followed this enter link, which said to turn on Content Approval at the site collection level, if that option was being used in the workflow. I did, removed my test list and test workflow, but the problem still occurred on lists/workflows created after this.
- I created a 1-step workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010 ("Start Approval process on Current Item with [email protected]")...it WORKED.
- I created a new subsite within this site collection to see if the SharePoint (not Designer) workflows would work correctly, and they did not. This is what each Workflow shows in my document libraries (I have a separate document library for each Workflow type).
- I created a brand new site collection, used Backup-SPSite and Restore-SPSite to move all content into the new site collection, in the hopes that perhaps it was just "something" wrong at the old site collection...this did nothing, of course, other than provide me another area to test in.
Workflow Results:
- Disposition Workflow: Completed.
- Three-State Workflow: Completed.
- Signatures Workflow: Failed on Start ("Workflow was canceled by System Account").
- Feedback Workflow: Failed on Start ("Workflow was canceled by System Account").
- Approval Workflow: Failed on Start ("Workflow was canceled by System Account").
- Publishing Approval Workflow (tested on Wiki library): Approved (Completed).
The Workflow History List does not give any relevant data as to why it's failing, either.
The SharePoint Designer Approval workflow that I created (which is a simple 1 step workflow, the best that I can do without reading further into it) works fine.
Does anyone have any idea on why 3 out of 6 workflows with SharePoint work fine, but the ones that need signatures, feedback, or approval (not counting the Publishing Approval workflow) do not work?
Thank you in advance for any help that you can provide.
Updates
- 6/27/2012 2:57PM
I downloaded a tool called ULS Viewer and proceeded to use that. I must admit, I do not understand 10% of the information flowing across the screen when looking at the logs, but at least I was able to filter the word "workflow" out of the message category. This is what resulted:
RunWorkflow: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: User cannot be found.
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPUserCollection.get_Item(String loginName)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowNoCodeSupport.LoadWorkflowBytesElevated(SPFile file, Int32 fileVer, Int32& userid, DateTime& lastModified)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowNoCodeSupport.LoadWorkflowBytesElevated(SPWeb web, Guid docLibID, Int32 fileID, Int32 fileVer, Int32& userid, DateTime& lastModified)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowNoCodeSupport.<>c__DisplayClass1.<LoadWorkflowBytes>b__0(SPSite elevatedSite, SPWeb elevatedWeb)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowNoCodeSupport.LoadWorkflowBytes(SPWeb web, Guid docLibID, Int32 fileID, Int32 fileVer, Int32& userid)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPNoCodeXomlCompiler.LoadXomlAssembly(SPWorkflowAssociation association, SPWeb web)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeHostServices.LoadDeclarativeAssembly(SPWorkflowAssociation association)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeHostServices.CreateInstance(SPWorkflow workflow)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWinOeEngine.RunWorkflow(SPWorkflowHostService host, SPWorkflow workflow, Collection`1 events, TimeSpan timeOut)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Workflow.SPWorkflowManager.RunWorkflowElev(SPWorkflow workflow, Collection`1 events, SPWorkflowRunOptionsInternal runOptions)
Another exception just below that one had the same detailed information, but the first line was different:
RunWorkflow: Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: User cannot be found.