SharePoint 2013 Workflow Errors
SharePoint 2013 Workflow Tips
I have learned some gotchas and tricks while creating my first SharePoint 2013 Workflows.
Background:
These observations were observed while using SharePoint Designer 2013 with Service Pack 1 to create SharePoint 2013 Workflows on an on-premises farm running version 15.0.4665.1000 (2013 Service Pack 1 Mark 2). No custom visual studio actions have been used.
Observation 1:
Corrupt workflows:DO NOT copy and paste Conditional IF statements from one stage transition to another stage transition.
This may cause the workflow to become corrupted. I have attempted to save the workflow as a template periodically in case it becomes corrupted later. THIS DID NOT WORK. It appears that workflows can become corrupt and nothing I could do later helped. This included exporting the WSP, unpacking it, then trying to copy the XAML from one workflow to another and redeploy to the system. Basically I tried every workaround I discovered. Even tried using SharePoint Desi…
I have learned some gotchas and tricks while creating my first SharePoint 2013 Workflows.
Background:
These observations were observed while using SharePoint Designer 2013 with Service Pack 1 to create SharePoint 2013 Workflows on an on-premises farm running version 15.0.4665.1000 (2013 Service Pack 1 Mark 2). No custom visual studio actions have been used.
Observation 1:
Corrupt workflows:DO NOT copy and paste Conditional IF statements from one stage transition to another stage transition.
This may cause the workflow to become corrupted. I have attempted to save the workflow as a template periodically in case it becomes corrupted later. THIS DID NOT WORK. It appears that workflows can become corrupt and nothing I could do later helped. This included exporting the WSP, unpacking it, then trying to copy the XAML from one workflow to another and redeploy to the system. Basically I tried every workaround I discovered. Even tried using SharePoint Desi…