SharePoint Workflow Problem and it’s Resolution (Level 200)

MJ FerdousSharePoint Architect | Brain Station-23Founder, SharePoint Experts-Bangladesh Community

SharePoint Experts-Bangladesh usergroup meet-up on Feb 2013

I will talk about …• SharePoint Experts-Bangladesh Community• Why, when and where User-group meet-up?• SharePoint 2010 RTM Bug• Working with Workflow Start Manually• SharePoint 2010 SP1 Bug• Working with SPD Workflow Publish Error• General Feedback from you

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About User-group meet-up

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We are going to start our usergroup meet-ups monthly to share our experience of SharePoint and SharePoint related technologies to improve our knowledge .

We will do every meet-up on Microsoft Bangladesh office:

RM center, 3rd floor, 101 Gulshan Avenue, Dhaka-1212

SharePoint 2010 RTM Bug!− Workflow doesn’t Auto start when item

created specifically if item create using custom web part programmatically

Related Error:http://connect.nintex.com/forums/thread/16616.aspxhttp://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/bg-BG/sharepointdevelopmentprevious/thread/6bb56995-3a61-4095-aac8-9ca3a883d12chttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointadminprevious/thread/83ae2900-6ed5-41d3-8682-73fc2ddea43f/http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointcustomizationprevious/thread/fc4e1073-d67f-449a-b443-e5805f5358c7/http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sharepointcustomizationlegacy/thread/724d1347-c1ab-4dce-96b4-a97a0a320b8b/

SharePoint 2010 RTM Bug!− “Check for Error” shows − No Publishing Error− All good− But still !!!

SharePoint 2010 RTM Bug!• My SharePoint Environment:

− SP 2010 Enterprise (Build Version 14.0.4762.1000) − SPD 2010 Workflow

• It can happen if yours Server Farm Version is− SharePoint Server 2010 RTM – Build Version 14.0.4762.1000 

(my case)

• or below the following build version− Build Version 14.0.6029.1000

SharePoint 2010 RTM Bug!

Solutions:• The problem can be solved easily if you upgrade

the Server Farm to Build Version 14.0.6029.1000. • because the same scenario is working for me in

Another Server where Build Version is 14.0.6029.1000.

• It means this is a bug of Initial Product Version (Exactly I don’t know when it is solved after 14.0.6029.1000).

Working with Workflow Start Manually• But if you are unable to Upgrade Farm due

to some other dependency then Start Workflow Manually.

• I am having the same problem for adding List Item from custom web part and Start Manually

• But First time it works but from the next time it shows the following error:

Working with Workflow Start Manually• I have changed the code to Start Workflow

which executes faster that the previous one.

• Call it from Entry From "Save" Button

Working with Workflow Start Manually• One more Important! Thing

− Set AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; before you calling StartWorkflow() Method

− Set AllowUnsafeUpdates = false; after you calling StartWorkflow() Method

SharePoint 2010 SP1 BugScenario:• I upgraded the development Environment to

14.0.6029.1000 as same as Pre-Production and Restored the SharePoint Site in Pre-Production.

• But Workflow Failed to Start

So when I tried to Publish workflow again using SharePoint Designer, I got the above error even from Development Server. It Means this is SP1 Bug for this specific version. Publishing Error!!!Error were found when compiling the workflow

Working with SPD Workflow Publish ErrorPublishing Error!!!Error were found when compiling the workflow

Working with SPD Workflow Publish ErrorSolutions:

− To resolve this issue, install the hotfixes that are provided in the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: − 2687614 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687614/ )

− Description of the SharePoint Server 2010 hotfix package (Coreservermui-xx-xx.msp): October 30, 2012

− 2687557 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2687557/ ) − Description of the SharePoint Foundation 2010 hotfix package (Wss-x-none.msp):

October 30, 2012

− I installed those in the Pre-Production Server and Update my Farm. Each time I run “SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard” to Update Farm (It is required to Update Farm who doesn’t know about it)

• Error still not solved !

Working with SPD Workflow Publish ErrorSolutions:

− Open SharePoint management shell as administrator and run the bellow command− $app = get-spwebapplication

http://portal.contesto.com− $app.UserDefinedWorkflowMaximumCom

plexity = 10000− $app.Update()

− Then I try to publish the workflow and it works without any problem

Working with SPD Workflow Publish ErrorFinal Steps:

The above solution doesn’t work in the Production and confused what to do. Possible reason(s) I realized its something to do with SPD to Web Application communication. So I guess it was request size / timeout related issue. SO, I increased the web application execution time to Solve this Problem :

1. Navigate to web.config file of the WebApplication Usually its

@ C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\xxxx\web.config

2. Look for this<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="51200" />

3. Replace with <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="51200" executionTimeout="300" />

That's all!!

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