Custom SharePoint 2013 workflow activities in site template throw error on site creation

Hi all,
I have created a number of custom activities for SharePoint 2013 Workflows and I am using them on an Office 365 environment. The custom activities are packaged as a sandbox solution and deployed on my Office 365 site. Everything works as expected.
I have now created a site with all the functionality I need, including some Site and List workflows - all of them containing my custom activities. I saved the site as a template - including content - and the process was completed successfully.
My problem is that when I try to create a site based on that template, I get the following error:
Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityNotFoundException: The activity named 'WorkflowXaml_66b9230b_823e_4783_82b8_daf481237847' from scope '/spo/d42a4487-9465-4347-9f2c-a2718e92fc02/74d0f9e7-fb35-493d-86fb-ab7aa27da7e0/c2e1bf45-cf67-4e13-9755-421cf92395f8'
was not found. HTTP headers received from the server - ActivityId: 0997496a-5a15-4b83-82eb-727881eefa67. NodeId: . Scope: . Client ActivityId : c82f6e9c-9f8f-808b-7679-f2c0f92a339d. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error
After a number of trials and errors, I am certain that this relates to my custom activities. i have already tested all of the following scenarios:
Delete the workflow with the custom actions: Site is created successfully.
Create a new workflow with no custom actions and save the site as a template:
Site is created successfully.
Save the site template including a workflow with my custom activities, but not including content:
Site is created successfully, but my workflow is not there.
Create a new custom workflow activities sandbox with one custom activity that just writes something to the history list - just to make sure that this is not related to any specific solution. Save the site as a template:
Site creation throws the same error.
Packaged my workflow (with my custom activities) as a wsp from SharePoint Designer and deployed it as a custom solution. Activated the feature in the target site. The workflow gets created and executing finally. Saved the site as template: Site
creation throws the same error.
Same as above, but without activating the feature in the target site: Site created successfully, workflow works fine after I activate the feature in the new site.
My custom activities feature is always enabled in the site I save as template - in all of the above scenarios.
I have tested all of the above scenarios both on SharePoint 2013 on-premise and Office 365. There is
a forum post regarding some inconsistencies in the wsp file, but unfortunately this is not my case. Am I doing something wrong? Are custom 2013 workflow activities not supported in site templates - which would not actually make any sense, as it would "break"
the fundamental concept of re-usability.
Any ideas/feedback/guidance?
Thanx in advance

Hi,
I am facing the same issue. Kindly help me out if any of them have solved similar issue.
Your help would be appreciated.
manikantan

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  Workflow Error - Sharepoint Designer cannot display the item
  http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/74327.aspx
I hope this is helpful to somebody
Thanks

Hi Amit,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to approve workflow task using web service in SharePoint 2013.
For troubleshooting this issue, please provide the more detailed code.
Here are some similar posts, please check if they are useful:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/b999a417-dce3-4590-9173-89aea91f23a3/complete-workflow-after-approving-all-tasks?forum=sharepointdevelopment
http://www.sharepointblog.in/2013/07/programmatically-approvereject-task-in.html
http://aarebrot.net/blog/2011/10/how-sloppiness-and-spworkflowtask-altertask-could-inadvertantly-lock-your-workflow-task/
I hope this helps.
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SharePoint 2013 Workflow created on SharePoint Designer gets canceled

Just wanted to share my solution to a problem that I was having when creating a SharePoint 2013 Workflow that includes creating a task and assigning it to a group of people. After publishing the workflow and initiating it you get:
Retrying last request. Next attempt scheduled in less than one minute.
Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ResourceNotFoundException: Cannot find resource for the request sp.utilities.utility.ExpandGroupsToPrincipals
An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the workflow instance.
   Exception details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 404 {"error":{"code":"-1, Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ResourceNotFoundException",
   "message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"Cannot find resource for the request sp.utilities.utility.ExpandGroupsToPrincipals."},
   "innererror":{"message":"Cannot find resource for the request sp.utilities.utility.ExpandGroupsToPrincipals.",
   "type":"Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ResourceNotFoundException","stacktrace":" at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.GetObjectFromPathRoot(Boolean mainRequestPath, EdmParserNode node, Boolean resourceEndpoint, MethodInformation& methodInfo)\u000d\u000a at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.GetObjectFromPath(Boolean mainRequestPath, String path, String pathForErrorMessage)\u000d\u000a at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.Process()\u000d\u000a at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.ProcessRequest()\u000d\u000a at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestService.ProcessQuery(Stream inputStream, IList`1 pendingDisposableContainer)"}}
   } {"Transfer-Encoding":["chunked"],"X-SharePointHealthScore":["0"],"SPClientServiceRequestDuration":["46"]
   ,"SPRequestGuid":["624f66f8-a70c-81db-bf0d-c042443f5435"],"request-id":["624f66f8-a70c-81db-bf0d-c042443f5435"],
   "X-FRAME-OPTIONS":["SAMEORIGIN"],"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices":["15.0.0.4569"],"X-Content-Type-Options":["nosniff"],
   "X-MS-InvokeApp":["1; RequireReadOnly"],"Cache-Control":["max-age=0, private"],"Date":["Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:17:23 GMT"],
   "Server":["Microsoft-IIS\/8.0"],"X-AspNet-Version":["4.0.30319"],"X-Powered-By":["ASP.NET"]} at
   Microsoft.Activities.Hosting.Runtime.Subroutine.SubroutineChild.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) at
    System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at
    System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)
I was not able to find any answer anywhere, so my solution was:
1. Simply upgrade SharePoint Server 2013 to the latest version which in turn updates Microsoft.Activities.Proxy.dll
2. Clear the SharePoint Designer cache
Workflow Error - Sharepoint Designer cannot display the item
   http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/74327.aspx
I hope this is helpful to somebody
Thanks

Hi,
I doubt its not possible.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17925555/windows-workflow-4-appfabrix-1-1-suspended-workflow-will-not-resume
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/fd85c5f9-36dd-4be5-872f-9ba73b1eb0b8/appfabric-11-for-windows-server-versus-workflow-manager-10?forum=wfprerelease
http://seroter.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/interview-series-four-questions-with-jrgen-willis/
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Sharepoint 2013 workflows and Due date

hi, i'm a sharepoint designer 2010 user, and i recently migrate to sharepoint 2013 (and use sharepoint designer 2013).
I understood it was impossible to migrate sharepoint 2010 workflow to sharepoint 2013 workflows ! But it was possible to call 2010 workflow from 2013 worikflow.
However, i thought i could reproduce workflow under SPD 2013. I recently discover that was not as possible as it seems
for example, it was possible to escalate a task after due date, under SP2010 workflow. I try to reproduce it under sharepoint 20103 workflow, but it seems not to be possible any more (i read this article >>
link <<!
Does any sharepoint's expert can confirm it to me !?
Mon blog : http://spinfopath2010.blogspot.fr/ Sharepoint online 2010 Sharepoint Designer 2010 - InfoPath 2010 - newbie level !

Also please note that you can combine both workflow engines together! It means you can create 2013 workflow using the new model and if you face any action which is no longer available (and you cannot find any other way, e.g. impersonation step) -
you are able to just easily invoke 2010 workflow with its set of actions.
To do so, please read following article, which also describes why some features are no longer available and how to implement these deprecated activities in 2013 environment:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj728659.aspx
Hi martin,
Yes, i know i can call a 2010 worklfow from a 2013 one, but it seems to me "tricky", and not a very good practice. Because, these workflows can be either deprecated or abandonned.
I prefered to use a "full" 20130 workflow instead of mixing it with an older version
Anyway, if there is no other way, i'll do it
Mon blog : http://spinfopath2010.blogspot.fr/ Sharepoint online 2010 Sharepoint Designer 2010 - InfoPath 2010 - newbie level !

Any way i can create and manage SharePoint 2013 workflows in browser.

Guys,
is there any way i can created and manager sharepoint 2013 workflows in browser like Nintex lets you do. This will eliminate the need for sharepoint designer.
thanks
MM

No. SharePoint's work flows are created from SharePoint Designer or Visual Studio. Third party solutions like Nintex have other approaches.
Mike Smith TechTrainingNotes.blogspot.com
Books:
SharePoint 2007 2010 Customization for the Site Owner,
SharePoint 2010 Security for the Site Owner

SharePoint 2013 Workflows not working

Hi All,
I am currently attempting to get SharePoint 2013 workflows working, i have installed the workflow manager and linked it to SharePoint but when i run any 2013 workflow i get the following error:
RequestorId: 26c49394-eb06-737a-7fde-d5bbfe4f6505. Details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 401 The remote server returned an
error: (500) Internal Server Error. {"SPRequestGuid":["8c76bcc4-3979-41a9-ae18-7221aa418528"],"request-id":["8c76bcc4-3979-41a9-ae18-7221aa418528"],"X-FRAME-OPTIONS":["SAMEORIGIN"],"SPRequestDuration":["24"],"SPIisLatency":["0"],"Server":["Microsoft-IIS\/8.0"],"WWW-Authenticate":["Bearer
realm=\"8de50181-fbf8-48a5-9cd6-5edb37403fbd\",client_id=\"00000003-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000\",trusted_issuers=\"00000005-0000-0000-c000-000000000000@*,[email protected]37403fbd\"","NTLM"],"X-Powered-By":["ASP.NET"],"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices":["15.0.0.4569"],"X-Content-Type-Options":["nosniff"],"X-MS-InvokeApp":["1;
RequireReadOnly"],"Date":["Thu, 04 Sep 2014 09:46:31 GMT"]} at Microsoft.Activities.Hosting.Runtime.Subroutine.SubroutineChild.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance
instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)
Its worth noting that 2010 workflow run without a problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Jamie

Hi,
Based on your description, my understanding is that when you ran SharePoint 2013 workflow, an error occurred.
You can try to re-register the Workflow Service.
Here is
a link about how to configure workflow for SharePoint Server 2013, you can use as a reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj658588(v=office.15).aspx
Best Regards,
Lisa Chen

SharePoint 2013 workflow deployment doens't update workflow definition

In Visual Studio 2013, we can develop SharePoint 2013 workflow and deploy directly in SharePoint. However, once a workflow is deployed and later modified and redeployed, the modified workflow definition doesn't take effects. Even if you retract the solution
and redeploy, the associated workflow with the sharepoint solution doesn't get updated in the SharePoint. Retracting the SharePoint solution then restarting the development server and finally redeploying will reset the workflow definition.

try this link:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/779905/sharepoint-2013-workflow-deployment-doenst-update-workflow-definition
http://www.sharepointeurope.com/blog/2011/8/30/5-easy-ways-to-turn-sharepoint-workflow-solution-into-a-failure-by-pawe%C5%82-wr%C3%B3bel-datapolis
http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.in/2013/02/sharepoint-2013-workflow-manager.html
according to links workflow is cached in site so delete it from designer also.

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