Please help: Workflow service is not connected

Question

This questions is in continuation to my query posted ...see below link
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/e6a880d4-e252-49bc-8866-f3f959abf23f/do-i-need-to-have-sharepoint-designer-2013-installed-on-sharepoint-2013-production-server-to-create?forum=sharepointgeneral
I noticed that the web application is associated with "Workflow Service Application Proxy" from Central Administration site. However
I do not see Workflow Service application listed in the Manage service applications, but only Workflow service application proxy is listed and when I clicked on this, I see that the workflow is not connected though it shows started.
Also Ran ‘Get-WFFarmStatus’ command to check if the Workflow service is running, and to my surprise it is running.
Snapshot below:
If I re-register the workflow (used below command), I am getting Register-SPWorkflowService : Failed to register because the farm or partition
is already registered with a workflow service
Register-SPWorkflowService -SPSite "http://abc" -WorkflowHostUri "http://localhost:12291" -AllowOAuthHttp
I am unaware of this… but now I am doubting if this is creating the problem. I have registered the workflow withhttp://localhost:12291
on my SharePoint server. Should the workflow have DNS entry to register?
Also, we do not have user profile service, so the user profile service & user profile synchronization service are not started. Do I need to start ‘user profile
synchronization service’ as Nikhil suggested.
Please help me to resolve this issue please.
Regards,
DJ

Answer 1

Hi Rookio,
Based on your description, your workflow service is not connected.
For troubleshooting this issue, I recommend to verify the things below:
1. Check the workflow management site is starting. If yes, restart the workflow management site.
2. Check the ULS log to see some information about your problem.
3. Re-register workflow service with force: Register-SPWorkflowService -SPSite "http://myserver/mysitecollection" -WorkflowHostUri "http://workflow.example.com:12291"
-AllowOAuthHttp  -force.
4. Run the PowerShell command to see if the issue still occurs: Enable-SPFeature -Identity WorkflowServiceStore –Url $yourUrl.
Per my knowledge, you do not need to start user profile synchronization service when configuring the workflow manager.
However, the user who deploys and runs a workflow must be added to the User Profile service, so it is recommended to start the user profile service application.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj658588(v=office.15).aspx
More reference:
http://www.datazx.cn/Forums/en-US/7675ea81-457d-4491-a224-e34471beec63/action?threadDisplayName=sharepoint-2013-workflow-manager-not-connected&forum=sharepointcustomization
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/79275/sharepoint-2013-workflow-manager-missing-service
http://anujabhojani.blogspot.be/2013/06/the-option-for-sharepoint-2013-workflow.html
Best regards,
Victoria
Victoria Xia
TechNet Community Support