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Posted By: Posted Date: September 20, 2010 Points: 0 Category :SharePoint

I have a problem whereby workflows do not complete on certain sites, but work fine on others.

When selecting the 'Approve' button on the approval page, for the sites that the workflow doesnt work properly, it takes about 20 seconds for the approval to register, and then the task will be marked as complete, but the status of the workflow will still be in progress.

This has been an ongoing problem for me for quite a while and although I am confident in most areas of SharePoint, this one has really stumped me.

I am aware that allowing mutliple selections of people/groups for a field can cause this problem, but this is not the cause of the problem.

Has anybody else experienced problems with workflows not completing and if so, were you able to overcome the issue?

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