Errors were found when compiling workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010

Hello there,
I've run into a interesting issue in SharePoint Designer 2010 when publishing a workflow. I now get the below error
Normally when I get this message I simply clear the SharePoint Designer 2010 cache described in this
article, however, in this case the issue still continued. Hence I started the process of trial and error and quickly realized that the Update Item action was the culprit. In this action I am updating approximately 70 columns. Currently, I have two such
actions running in sequence. When I added the third Update Item action to do the same, I started getting this error.
Has anyone else experienced this before? In the workflow I am currently working on I am going to have to using the Update Item action several times and update approximately 70 columns hence I am open to other ideas to do the same.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Entan Ming,
Thanks for your reply, Hope you are aware that while we create any new workflow using SharePoint Designer 2013. There are two ways (We can say Platforms) to create the new workflow 1. SharePoint
2010 and 2. SharePoint 2013.
If I choose second one I. e SharePoint 2013, and try to create, save and publish workflow it`s working fine. But whenever I select option no. 1 i.e. SharePoint 2010 Platform to create
the workflow, I am able to Create it , save it , but while I try to publish it I got an error:
Errors were found when compiling the workflow. The workflow files were saved but cannot be run.
When I click on Advance I got message:
Unexpected error on server associating the workflow
My question is that, I am not able to publish any workflow in SharePoint 2010 Platform, using SharePoint Designer 2013.
Before publishing a workflow, I click on ‘Check for errors’ button, there was no any error found.
Thanks & Regards Mr. Bajirao Shinde

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Errors were found when compiling the workflow. The workflow files were saved but cannot be run.

Greetings All,
I am having issues with a SharePoint Designer workflow. This is a SharePoint 2013 environment, I'm using SharePoint Designer 2013 and working on a SharePoint 2010 workflow. I'm developing this as a SharePoint 2010 workflow because I need to do
impersonation.
The environment and workflow have been running, in the past week, without issue. I went to add a couple steps and now I cannot publish the workflow. While in SharePoint Designer, I receive the error:
"Errors were found when compiling the workflow. The workflow files were saved but cannot be run." When I click the Advanced button on the error dialog, the message is "Unexpected error on server associating the workflow."
That is all the error information I have available; nothing is in the log files.
I have investigated this error and tried the following:
Cleared the SharePoint Designer cache.
The WebApp.UserDefinedWorkflowMaximumComplexity was at 7000 so I increased it to 10000. Restarted the servers (which may not have been necessary) and tried again receiving the same error. I then increased it to 30000 with the same error result.
Since this is a large workflow, I tried created a workflow with a single action, write to workflow log, with the same error results.
I reboot the servers and try again and now I can publish the small test workflow but not the original. However, neither will run. When I attempt to manually run the small test workflow on an item, I get an error: "Sorry something went wrong.
An unexpected error occurs. I checked the log files for the correlation id and nothing, nothing was logged for the error. ~arg~
Also, now no workflows can be published in this web app. Not just the one I was working on but none of them!
Does anyone have a clue what has happened to the SharePoint 2010 workflow service? Or some suggestions for me to try?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Bob Mixon

try these links:
http://sp2013.pro/2013/04/solution-errors-were-found-when-compiling-the-workflow-the-workflow-files-were-saved-but-cannot-be-run-cannot-set-unknown-member/
http://code2care.org/pages/sharepoint-errors-were-found-when-compiling-the-workflow-the-workflow-files-were-saved-but-cannot-be-run/
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/119909/sharepoint-designer-error-errors-were-found-when-compiling-the-workflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26413125/errors-were-found-when-compiling-the-workflow-in-sharepoint-2013
Hi Sagar,
I appreciate it but if you see my original post, this is a SharePoint 2010 workflow that cannot be published; which has now caused all SharePoint 2010 workflows in the same web app to error.
Your first link is specific to SharePoint 2013 workflows.
Your second link refers to the UserDefinedWorkflowMaximumComplexity. If you read my original post, I've already tried this and I've tried to publish a small (single activity) workflow.
Your third link also refers to large workflows with many approval activities. My workflow doesn't contain any approval activities.
And you fourth link refers to 2013 workflows not 2010.
My issue is with publishing and running a SharePoint 2010 workflow in SharePoint 2013.
Thank you...

Errors were found when compiling the workflow

My company has consolodated many SharePoint sites into one with many subsites to save money. I ported my existing libraries from theold site to the new site (Same version of SP). The workflows did not go with the libraries, as expected. I re-created each
workflow, and every time have gotten the same error message: "Errors were found when compiling the workflow. The workflow files were saved but cannot run."
When I click Advanced I see some variation of the following:
(-1, -1) Compilation failed. Could not find file 'C:\Users\TEMP.*domain*\AppData\Local\Temp\ **and then a different .dll file every time'
I have not seen any other examples of this online. For some, creating a new task and history list for the workflow allowed it to compile, but not always.

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that Errors are found when compiling the workflow.
I recommend that you can check whether the file exists under the path 'C:\Users\TEMP.*domain*\AppData\Local\Temp\”.
If it exists, you can create a silmple workflow to check whether it works.
If it does work, you can add executionTimeout property in web.config file to increase the timeout interval(Make a copy of the web.config file before editing anything).
For more information, please refer to:
Manjuke's Blog: Fixed: SharePoint Designer Error - Unexpected error on server associating the workflow
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SharePoint Designer 2010 approval workflow error revisited

Karen K started a question around:
Errors
were found when compiling the workflow. The workflow files were saved but cannot be run.And when I click on the "Advanced" button in the error message, I see this detailed error:
(0,
0) Activity 'ID4' validation failed: Property 'DurationUnit' has invalid value. Field type 'System.String' does not match with the expected type 'Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Actions.DurationUnit'.)
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010customization/thread/332e49c6-6471-4374-9c9f-9bcf334f9c69
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I can't figure how to do step 2:
2. Select
the Action and click the “Advanced Properties”
ribbon control;
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the “DurationUnit” property in the properties
box, and click the “fx” link in the box;
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"Select the Action" am I looking for? I looked everywhere.
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RoyKim, it's simpler than you think, which is why it probably stumped you. This is all you do:
In SPD2010, click on the Workflows Site Object
Find your workflow and click on it to open the top-level settings page
Click edit workflow
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Then click Advanced Properties in the ribbon
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Hi rebel537,
As you described, you are using SharePoint Foundation 2010. There is no “Start approval process” action when you edit SharePoint Foundation 2010 workflow in SharePoint
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Then click finish. Back to the workflow edit zone, click user, in the pop-up window, select the user for the task then click finish ,back to the workflow edit zone.
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Publish the workflow, and use it for the approval purpose.
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http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/anavijai/error-the-requested-service-appmng-svc-could-not-be-activa/
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