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Workflows do not start
14 March 09 06:55 AM

You are of course aware of the fact that starting with Service Pack 1 the workflows created in SharePoint designer that should launch under the credentials of the system account will no longer start automatically. You know what the resolution is for this Read More...

Postedby Victor Butuza | 1 Comments    

Filed under: Administration, Workflows

How to enable workflow tracing (debug)
26 February 09 08:38 AM

This might come in handy whenever you (like myself and I am sure thousands of others) see some error in the execution of one workflow and found the completely useless messages like “Error Occurred” Dig deep and find nothing first troubleshooting step Read More...

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Sharepoint Designer 2007 workflow error occurred on Update List Item when field is Person/Group
20 January 09 06:58 PM

This is concerning an error found encountered in Sharepoint Designer based workflows after installing the October Cumulative updates. The behavior you will encounter is the following: Create a simple list with two fields: Title (default) User type Person/Group Read More...

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Workflow Error: "An error has occured in Approval"
19 November 08 06:31 PM

What we have here is not actually a how to , nor does it point to a known issue, it's more of a logical reason behind writing the entry. As a starting point, we have the SharepPoint standard Approval workflow which can, through the UI, easily be attached Read More...

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Cannot Update A List Item
26 August 08 06:56 PM

I started the other day to create a simple workflow which should create an item in a tasks list and assign the task to a sharepoint group containing local accounts. The set-up was (so I thought) the simplest possible: One standalone server on a single Read More...

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