So what happens when you’ve built out a SharePoint Designer workflow with a Pause Until Date activity, and then the date changes on you? Obviously, we want to the workflow to handle this situation and update the Delay logic accordingly. In this post, we’ll talk about how to set that up and address the Pros and Cons of each method.
Continue Reading →Failed To Load Workflow Error in SharePoint Designer
Ok I thought I’d post on this because it stumped me for close to 2 hours. So in my scenario, I have a WSS 3.0 installation with several SharePoint Designer workflows built. Many of these workflows use the Useful SharePoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities solution available on codeplex. After doing a migration from one server [...]
Continue Reading →SharePoint Designer Custom Workflow – List Item Not Found
So this particular error seems to be quite common, based on posts I’ve read here and here. If you’ve built a SharePoint Designer workflow and utilized the Update List Item activity, you may have run into a workflow error that logs an Outcome of: List Item Not Found For this particular scenario, here was my [...]
Continue Reading →SharePoint Designer – Server Returned a Non-Specific Error
Nothing is more frustrating that trying to create a new Data Source that talks to the SharePoint XML Web Services and receiving this error: Server returned a non-specific error when trying to get data from the data source KB article 923173 deals specifically with this error, but none of the suggestions were the fix for [...]
Continue Reading →How to Troubleshoot SharePoint Designer in Contributor Mode
I recently ran into an issue where I needed to use SharePoint Designer to add a workflow to a list within a site. However, if I opened the site within SharePoint Designer, it would load in Contributor mode thus preventing me from creating any workflows. Here is my scenario: Backed up a site collection from [...]
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