Hi,

I am planning to uninstall the workflow manager from SharePoint 2016 as we could not update the certificate after the expiry. So in order to uninstall the workflow manager we need open the "Workflow Manager Configuration" utility from desktop but while I am clicking on this....the workflow manager configuration tool is not getting opened...I am following the below url :

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34424.sharepoint-2016-uninstall-the-workflow-manager-1-0.aspx

As per this url while I am clicking on "Workflow Manager Configuration" the belowconfiguration wizard should get opened but it is not opening , upon clicking this nothing is happening....what could be the reason? We want to uninstall the workflow manager.



Thanks&Regards,

Habibur Rahaman

MCSA,MCP,MCTS

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Hello everyone.

Is it possible to have Sign-Off status in document property? When someone send a document for approval. I then have to print it as per company policies. I wanted the printed document to display the names of people who have signed-off.

Thanks in advance for your valuable answer.

Hi,

I'm getting a very strange error, the reason I'm calling it strange because I couldn't found a single post on this error over the web. Workflow is working fine until I use Assign a Task/ Start a Process activity. It throws the error "Only site owners can add\/delete a task", for full error message please see below:

Following is my farm topology.

Web Server: SharePoint 2013

App Server: SharePoint 2013

Workflow Server: Workflow Manager

What I have tried:

1. Full control permission to service account
2. Used task assignment activities within App step
3. Gave separate permission on the workflow task list
4. Created a new workflow task list

Error:

RequestorId: b1646f10-36ce-d1c9-0000-000000000000. 
Details: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the workflow instance. 
Exception details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 500 {"error":{"code":"-2130575223, 
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"Only site owners can add\/delete a task"},
"innererror":{"message":"Only site owners can add\/delete a task","type":"Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException","stacktrace":" at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPGlobal.HandleComException(COMException comEx)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.AddOrUpdateItem(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystemUpdate, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bPreserveItemUIVersion, Boolean bUpdateNoVersion, Int32& plID, String& pbstrGuid, Guid pbstrNewDocId, Boolean bHasNewDocId, String bstrVersion, Object& pvarAttachmentNames, Object& pvarAttachmentContents, Object& pvarProperties, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean bUnRestrictedUpdateInProgress, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish, String bstrFileName, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter pListDataValidationCallback, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter pRestrictInsertCallback, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter pUniqueFieldCallback)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.AddOrUpdateItem(Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystem, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bNoVersion, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Guid newGuidOnAdd, Int32& ulID, Object& objAttachmentNames, Object& objAttachmentContents, Boolean suppressAfterEvents, String filename, Boolean bPreserveItemUIVersion)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.UpdateInternal(Boolean bSystem, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Guid newGuidOnAdd, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish, Boolean bNoVersion, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean suppressAfterEvents, String filename, Boolean bPreserveItemUIVersion)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItem.Update()\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPListItemEntityCollection.Create()\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.ServerStub.SPListItemEntityCollectionServerStub.InvokeMethod(Object target, String methodName, ClientValueCollection xmlargs, ProxyContext proxyContext, Boolean& isVoid)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerStub.InvokeMethodWithMonitoredScope(Object target, String methodName, ClientValueCollection args, ProxyContext proxyContext, Boolean& isVoid)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.InvokeMethodWithRequestODataEntry(Object target, ServerStub serverStub, MethodInformation methodInfo, RequestODataObject entry)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.InvokeMethodWithRequestODataEntry(Object target, ServerStub serverStub, String methodName)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.TryAddEntity(Object entity, ServerStub serverStub, Object& newEntity)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.Process()\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.ProcessRequest()\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestService.ProcessQuery(Stream inputStream, IList`1 pendingDisposableContainer)","internalexception":{"message":"<nativehr>0x81020089<\/nativehr><nativestack><\/nativestack>Only site owners can add\/delete a task","type":"System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException","stacktrace":" at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.AddOrUpdateItem(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystemUpdate, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bPreserveItemUIVersion, Boolean bUpdateNoVersion, Int32& plID, String& pbstrGuid, Guid pbstrNewDocId, Boolean bHasNewDocId, String bstrVersion, Object& pvarAttachmentNames, Object& pvarAttachmentContents, Object& pvarProperties, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean bUnRestrictedUpdateInProgress, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish, String bstrFileName, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter pListDataValidationCallback, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter pRestrictInsertCallback, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter pUniqueFieldCallback)\u000d\u000a at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.AddOrUpdateItem(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, Boolean bAdd, Boolean bSystemUpdate, Boolean bPreserveItemVersion, Boolean bPreserveItemUIVersion, Boolean bUpdateNoVersion, Int32& plID, String& pbstrGuid, Guid pbstrNewDocId, Boolean bHasNewDocId, String bstrVersion, Object& pvarAttachmentNames, Object& pvarAttachmentContents, Object& pvarProperties, Boolean bCheckOut, Boolean bCheckin, Boolean bUnRestrictedUpdateInProgress, Boolean bMigration, Boolean bPublish, String bstrFileName, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter pListDataValidationCallback, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter pRestrictInsertCallback, ISP2DSafeArrayWriter pUniqueFieldCallback)"}}}} {"Transfer-Encoding":["chunked"],"X-SharePointHealthScore":["0"],"SPClientServiceRequestDuration":["119"],"SPRequestGuid":["b1646f10-36ce-d1c9-b772-ffe30ba44e0a"],"request-id":["b1646f10-36ce-d1c9-b772-ffe30ba44e0a"],"X-FRAME-OPTIONS":["SAMEORIGIN"],"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices":["15.0.0.4841"],"X-Content-Type-Options":["nosniff"],"X-MS-InvokeApp":["1; RequireReadOnly"],"Cache-Control":["max-age=0, private"],"Date":["Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:58:57 GMT"],"Server":["Microsoft-IIS\/8.5"],"X-AspNet-Version":["4.0.30319"],"X-Powered-By":["ASP.NET"]}at Microsoft.Activities.Hosting.Runtime.Subroutine.SubroutineChild.Execute(CodeActivityContext context)at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager)at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation) 

Thanks, Kashif

Hi Team,

Due to some User Profile Synchronization issue ongoing workflow got suspended and some of those suspended workflow we are not able to see the status (When we clicked on Suspended received following error-

) 

So please suggest how can we resume those suspended workflow which gives above error.

Now User Profile Synchronization issue got resolved but we are not able to resume suspended workflow because we get "Sorry, something went wrong" error.

Regards

Vikas Mishra

This is a little bizarre I hope someone has seen & solved this before.

Flow logic:

1. Trigger on create/update

2. Get all items that have same Project ID which yields:

{
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.etag": "\"6\"",
      "ItemInternalId": "163",
      "ID": 163,
      "Title": "?",
      "Project": {
        "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
        "Id": 16,
        "Value": "AFRL 711 HPW Sensors"
      },
      "Project#Id": 16,
      "m8sj": "CDO",
      "acuj": 7,
      "mmwk": 2,
      "Modified": DELETED,
      "Created": DELETED,
      "Author": DELETED,
      "Author#Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|wwheeler@cdotech.com",
      "Editor": DELETED ,
     "{Link}": DELETED,
      "{Name}": "?",
      "{FilenameWithExtension}": "?",
      "{Path}": "Lists/Positions/"
    }
  ]
}

- Initialize some variables to hold counts

- Apply to each

 -- Increment billable (Works)

 -- Increment vacancies (Works)

 -- Test to see if vacancies have posts using 

InvalidTemplate. Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Increment_postings' inputs at line '1' and column '2562': 'The template language function 'greater' expects all of its parameters to be either integer or decimal numbers. Found invalid parameter types: 'Null'.'.

This where my noodle gets fried.   Using the very same field  to increment vacancies, it claims to be Null in the greater() function.

Peripheral question why are the field names different than the list definition:

      "m8sj": "CDO",   --> Company
      "acuj": 7,           --> Billable
      "mmwk": 2,       --> Vacant

All suggestions and sympathy welcome!

v/r,

Bill

For SharePoint 2013 installation, I need to change the RunAs account.

is it possible to change the RunAs account without reinstalling Workflow Manger/SB Manager without complete uninstall? Even if I remove all servers from the farm, seems like the RunAs account is always in Management db, so RunAs account is pre-populated with the old account.

Thank you

Hi,

I'm having an issue with Workflow Manager used for SharePoint 2013. In the event log it generates below entry every second.

ServiceBus threw MessageNotFound exception while trying to receive a deferred message. Deferred message context details: 
MessageId = 190556, ActionNamespace = Microsoft.Workflow.Dispatcher, ActionName = ReceiveNotification, 
InstanceId = {85ff16b1-6cf9-4388-bde1-f47db491b562}, ResumptionKey = a53e9c63-42bb-4840-bc1c-0b907a79c8c1, 
MessageTraceId = {9989a57e-9c01-4d4c-b3a8-df46428346f6}

And CPU usage is 100% because of WorkflowManager, ServiceBus Gateway and Service Bus message broker services. I've tried to check the workflow instance, and it was created on SharePoint ListItem which was deleted and no longer exist in system.

Is there any way I can remove this deferred message? I can't remove the workflow and workflow-Scope and many workflow instances are still running.

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Brij K
http://bloggerbrij.blogspot.co.uk/

Hi,

I found a problem in my SharePoint Server after installation some OS updates on SharePoint Server 2013 (Windows 2012 R2). When I open an existing Workflow 2013, I get an error that SharePoint Designer cannot display the item press F5 to refresh. Once I press the F5 key it shows me an error dialog that Windows Workflow Foundation, Part of .Net Framework 3.0, must be installed to use this feature. And when I want to create new Workflow 2013 after opening create a workflow and selecting a title of workflow SharePoint Designer does not do any action.

I did a bunch of works to solve the problem but I couldn't, such as:

1. Change Workflow Manager Server
2. Install all Updates Workflow Manager
3. Reconfigure Workflow Manager

I will really be grateful if you have any solution because I don't know what can I do more?

Regards,

Hi,

I installed Workflow Manager 1.0 (with default recommended configuration) and the Cummulative Update 1 and activated the feature on SharePoint 2013. I restarted my server.

The Workflow Manager Backend service cannot start. An attempt is done every 30" but it's always fails. The errors I see in the event viewer (every 30") are the following:

Error 1

Error 2

As a result I cannot deploy workflows on SharePoint using Visual Studio. I get a 500 error during activation of the related feature.

Any ideas?

Dimitris Papadimitriou, Software Development Professional

Hi All,

I'm getting this issue which terminates the workflow when I run one of our workflows under a particular scenario:

Details: System.Activities.Statements.WorkflowTerminatedException: The workflow instance exceeded the quota of 1000 activities executing at the same time.

The scenario causing the issue is intended to send tasks to over 50 users but it terminates at about 40.  It is submitting these composite tasks in a parallel ForEach loop.  The error doesn't seem to match the actual problem as there are not 1000 activities running but it looks like some threshold has been breached.  

Before making any changes, the workflow was dying at around 20 composite tasks but it improved to around 30 when I put a delay in the loop between sending the tasks out.  Delaying the tasks further did not improve the 30 figure.  I then tried changing the config settings on the Workflow manager and upped the limits for most of the settings (one by one):

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj680843(v=azure.10).aspx

This brought the number tasks submitted to around 40.  Again, increasing these further did not change this number.

I have tried some other things out:

• If I submit the composite tasks with WaitForTaskCompletion to false it will submit all the tasks.  This is not much good as I need to perform actions when each tasks is complete and then more actions when all tasks are complete - kind of the point of having a workflow!
• I have tried decreasing the complexity of the workflow before the tasks are sent out but this seems to have no effect (by sending out same message to all recipients).

This is the only article I could find with the error:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-nz/help/2938007/workflow-instance-exceeded-the-quota-of-1000-activities-executing-at

But none of these solutions are workable.

The environment is W2012R2, SP2013 using VS workflows.

Hope someone can help or give me any other ideas to try!

Hello,

Im unsure if this is the correct forum. Apologies if not.

I would like to change the email address of sent emails in SharePoint Online using a workflow in SharePoint Designer.

It is currently no-reply@sharepointonline.com and i would like to change it to one of my office 365 accounts.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Many thanks,

We all of a sudden had our SharePoint 2013 workflows stop running. We can't figure out if there was an update. The only thing that we did on the day this started happening is we enabled the Windows Desktop Experience feature. We have tried turning it back off and they still do not work. SharePoint 2010 workflows to run manually. We have re-installed the workflow manager as well as all associated services. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

David

Hello,

I am trying to create a workflow for a SharePoint Online list that will remove all permissions on a specific item (upon creation) and then assign permissions to a single user based on a lookup to find the user assigned in the person column for the List item.

I know this is possible in SharePoint 2010, however, I want to know if Sharepoint Online supports this functionality.

Thank you.

Hello folks

I created a list for internal approval and a workflow to perform this approval.
I have designed a workflow below that is simple one. The workflow initate the action well - Set the pending status, send an email to assign the task.

The one who received the task can access to it.

For Taks Status: I have removed the all default status and set 2 (Not started and Completed). when the screen is open the default status = blank

For Task Outcome, I have removed the default one, and set Need more info/Rejected/Compliance Notified. When the contact takes action and select for example

- Task Status = Completed

- Task Outcome = Compliance Notified

When clicked in Save, normally an email will autogenerated and inform about the status. But this is not happened here.

As you can see in the screen below, the status of workflow stuck at stage name "Pending to review" and I think that the email notification was not sent, due to this status.

Can you help me here and tell me what wrong with my workflow?

I have a requirement for the SharePoint 2013 workflows in an isolated 2016 farm, and I have not found out how to actually make them available.

The farm cannot be connected to the internet for any reason at all.

I've grabbed the Web Platform Installer to create an offline installation package, but I don't know what to include in it, even if that pertains.

Hi,

I noticed a strange behavior with a SP 2013 workflow that calls a 2010 workflow. I have this in an on-premise 2013.

First some context, I have created a test library with 55 documentsets, numbered from 01 to 55. In each of these document sets I copied 100 documents, from 100.txt to 199.txt with only one line there. I created two workflows, a 2013 workflow that does call the 2010 workflow. The 2010 workflow writes a "Hello world" to the log history of the workflow. I created the content in sequence, so first the document sets from 01 to 55 and then copying the same documents in each of the document sets, first in document set 01, then 02, up to the end for document set 55

When I start the 2013 workflow for

(1) document 100.txt in document set 01, everything works fine

(2) document 100.txt in document set 55, my 2013 workflow gets suspended with a "Bad request". I have the following error messages from the ULS logs:

Exception occured in scope Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.WorkflowInteropService.EnableEvents. Exception=System.ArgumentException: item   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.FabricInteropProvider.DefinitionsForItem(SPWeb web, Guid listId, Guid itemGuid)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.FabricInteropProvider.<>c__DisplayClass1.<EnableEvents>b__0()   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.<>c__DisplayClass5.<RunWithElevatedPrivileges>b__3()   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SecurityContext.RunAsProcess(CodeToRunElevated secureCode)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(WaitCallback secureCode, Object param)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(CodeToRunElevated secureCode)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.WorkflowInteropServiceServerStub.InvokeMethod(Object target, String methodName, ClientValueCollection xmlargs, ProxyContext proxyContext, Boolean& isVoid)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerStub.InvokeMethodWithMonitoredScope(Object target, String methodName, ClientValueCollection args, ProxyContext proxyContext, Boolean& isVoid)

Original error: System.ArgumentException: item   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.FabricInteropProvider.DefinitionsForItem(SPWeb web, Guid listId, Guid itemGuid)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.FabricInteropProvider.<>c__DisplayClass1.<EnableEvents>b__0()   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.<>c__DisplayClass5.<RunWithElevatedPrivileges>b__3()   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities.SecurityContext.RunAsProcess(CodeToRunElevated secureCode)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(WaitCallback secureCode, Object param)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(CodeToRunElevated secureCode)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.WorkflowInteropServiceServerStub.InvokeMethod(Object target, String methodName, ClientValueCollection xmlargs, ProxyContext proxyContext, Boolean& isVoid)   

 at Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerStub.InvokeMethodWithMonitoredScope(Object target, String methodName, ClientValueCollection args, ProxyContext proxyContext, Boolean& isVoid)

This setup is to simulate the problem I have for migratinga 4000 item document library with some 2000 document sets and 3000 documents that I need to move to the right document set. I do this using a 2013 workflow that calls 2010 support workflows, for example to move the file.

Any ideas on how to solve this ?

I tested the same setup on Office 365 and I do not have the error ;-(

Best regards,

Marc Nemegeer

Hello everyone,

We recently upgraded our SharePoint server from 2013 to 2019. The migration went pretty well, except for this one problem:

When a workflow hits a TerminateWorkflow activity, it kind of does not terminate the workflow. In fact, the workflow freezes at that point. My attempts to terminate those workflows manually seem to have no effect at all. The workflow status page says the workflow is "Started", I can click on Suspend (or whatever it is called in English) as often as I like, it does not have any effect either.

There is no error message, not in the workflow status page, not in the SharePoint log files, not in the Event log.

Fortunately, the workflows work as expected otherwise, so from the users' perspective, everything is fine. But meanwhile, zombie workflows keep piling up.

Has anyone encountered a similar problem?

I am really lost here, so I wholeheartedly appreciate any insights you might share.

Thank you so so much,

Benjamin