Task Owner Instructions State Machine Workflow Using Out of the Box Approval Form

Hi, I want to create custom task form in state machine workflow. How can I create & install?  G. Goyal

Hi, Very weird issue. Never happened before. I have Document Approval workflow, based on built-in approval workflow, which is available in document libraries of every site in the site collection. You might know that when you kick off approval (even collect feedback) workflow, you can enter task instructions, which will be passed on to the workflow task page (WrkTaskIP.aspx), and also included in the email, which will be sent to approvers (reviewers in case it is a collect feedback workflow). I know that the users used to enter task instructions, and before, it was appearing in the workflow task page where you approve/reject it. Recently, they noticed that the task instructions textbox was being empty, though the instructions were being entered when the workflow was started. Moreover, it stopped showing task instructions for other tasks that existed for a long time. BTW, this is not the same in every environment we have, but I could not find any difference in the settings when I compared them. Has anybody faced this problem? Please help if you know the solution. Thank you!!! Regards, R.D.M.

hi all;

i need to create task activity using c# code under specific condition to more than one person (parallel task)

any idea and if u please could u support me with samples as i'm new in workflow using VS2010

 

thanks in advance

I have a Workflow that is using an InfoPath task form.  In the "FormEvents_Loading" method event handler I have some code that needs to run each time the form is opened.   I recycle the App Pool and open the form the code runs perfectly, but if I close and try to re-open the form the code is not run at all.  I can then recycle the App Pool again and on the next load the code executes just fine.   The code that is supposed to be run is a very simple statement to set a field value, so I don't think it is interfering.

Does anyone know what this might be?

Thanks,
--Aaron

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I have an approval workflow that creates a task for a group to approve or reject an InfoPath form. But if a member of the group opens the form and updates the task from there, it doesn't complete the workflow. It only completes the workflow if they go to the actual task and update it from there. Does anyone know how to fix that?

Hi, I created a state machine workflow in share point 2007 with default associated task list. This is working fine. Now I want to add a custom content type to task in which I want to show 3 fields on task form : Title, Description, status And also I want to set some default values in these fields. How can I create and add this custom content type in state machine workflow ? G. Goyal

Hi,   I have a dev environment which i had sharepoint 2007 and now i upgraded it to sharepoint 2010. Now when i try to create a state machine workflow project it gives me an error Object Reference not set to an object. I uninstalled Sharepoint extensions 1.3 (as i 64bit win2008 vm) and when i am trying to install it. In one of the installation screens where it asks for the port no  and the select the app pool it only shows the sharepoint central v3 app pool . i was expecting to have sharepoint 2010 product app pool in the drop down. I know that there should be a app pool on port 80. Since i upgraded sharepoint to 2010. I want sharepoint visual studio extensions 1.3 to point to sharepoint 80 app pool . Please can you tell me how i can do it.    

Hi, I have an issue with debuging a workFlow with visual studio when it should start the workFlow when I create an item nothing happen and sharepoint stay stuck : I can't refresh any lists, visual studio rich 40% of the CPU, no exception on log. At the same time if i deploy without debugging it works. Please help me. Thanks, Patrice  

Hi, I'm using StateMachine for WF4 from codeplex. I can save it to file very well, but when I load it again I see only the states not the connectors also. Same behavior can be reproduced by double clicking a state and then coming back to whole state machine. Could you please help me? Thank you very much

Hello,   I have a problem with Delay Activity in Sharepoint state machine workflow. This issue is kind of common to many people but so far I haven't come accross any working solution. In one of the workflow states, I want to add a delay activity to send email notification if no action is taken after certain time. Below is what I have done:   In the targeted state: 1) add one eventDriven activity to handle the normal process (approve the item) 2) add another eventDriven activity to send the reminder email. In this eventDriven activity, I first add a delayActivity, set it to 2 minutes for test purpose. Then I add a Sharepoint SentEmail activity.   With my test, the Dealy Activity is never invoked after timeout period. What should I do to make the delay activity work in the SharePoint state machine workflow? Is there any work around if the delay activity is simply not working there?   Any suggestions are appreciated.

I have a workflow created using SharePoint Designer 2010. This workflow has 'Collect Data' task. When the workflow is run, a task is created in the task list, however users can not open the task from the list and get the following error. There has been an error while loading the form. A form template (.xsn) file can not be accessed. You may not have the required permissions to open the file. The users who are trying to open the task have full control on the task list as well as the list from where the workflow is started. Site Collection Administrators are able to open the task. I am not sure at which place the users dont have permissions that they are not able to open the task.Tarun

"Please help me out this problem" "Its too urgent" I have modified State Machine Workflow XOML file and upload again with my application. Now i am getting error while calling CreateWorkflow(). I am getting the following error. "Wokflow Validation Failed" "Activity 'handleExternalEventActivity1' validation failed: Property 'InterfaceType' is not set." If i am uploading the existing XOML file then it is working fine without any error. What i have to do and where i did mistake?

I use infopath 2007 created a task edit form and I use VS 2010 to create a sequential workflow.I want to use the custom tash edit form in the workflow.The problem I got is the InfoPath form doesn't get deployed to sharepoint. I'm able to upload the infopath form to sharepoint though central admin app. here is the element.xml :<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">  <Workflow     Name="WorkflowProject4 - Workflow1"     Description="My SharePoint Workflow"     Id="e6aa6cdb-667f-456a-b216-7639a1dcd3c7"     CodeBesideClass="WorkflowProject4.Workflow1.Workflow1"     CodeBesideAssembly="$assemblyname$">    <Categories/>    <MetaData>      <AssociationCategories>List</AssociationCategories>            <Task0_FormURN>urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:TaskForm:-myXSD-2009-12-10T22-33-23</Task0_FormURN>      <StatusPageUrl>_layouts/WrkStat.aspx</StatusPageUrl>    </MetaData>  </Workflow></Elements>and here is the feature1.template.xml<Feature xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">  <Properties>    <Property Key="GloballyAvailable" Value="true" />    <Property Key="RegisterForms" Value="*.xsn"/>  </Properties></Feature>anything

Creating a workflow, where I need to display the originating library url (along with document name) in the task form.  I know that the SPWorkflowActivationProperities has the value (its itemurl), but how do I then make that available so that the task can see it? I tried to put it in the extended properties on the task invoking "createDocumentApproval_TaskProperties.ExtendedProperties["MyOriginalUrl"] = workflowProperties.ItemUrl;" but I dont see it when I open the Task form by using a Request.Params. Any help will be greatly appreciated thxRocky Sanders

I've created a aspx task form, and it's working as planned.  However, the window that is popping up when the task form fires is too small, and I would like to set the initial height/width to my own values.  How do I override the standard sharepoint css/style values so that I can control the size of the task window?

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Rocky Sanders