'My Workflow Activities' channel(desktop channel)not working in E-Sourcing

My workflow activities channel is not shown in the work bench even
though it is added in column configuration.
When a legal work flow is triggered, user unable to see the curren work
items in the work bench as My workflow activities channel is not
visible in the work bench. Can anyone throw some light

Hello,
If I understand correctly the workflow approval is working fine, but the My Workflow Activities channel is not displayed on the workbench page. How did you add the channel to the workbench page? If you had added it to your workbench page, it will only show up for you. Others will not see it. In order to display the channel on all users workbench, it has to be added to the default workbench template. Also, if you have multiple workbench pages, make sure you have checked the right one where the channel was added. Are all users seeing the problem? You might want to check it is not access related. Have you checked the logs? Do you see any errors?
Regards,
Vikram

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djszapi wrote:Is it a crypted system ? Can't you boot into it from livecd neither ? What did you do immediately before when this error started to occur ?
No, it is not encrypted. Just as an information, it contains 4 partitions: sdb1=NTFS, sdb2=ext4, sdb3=swap, sdb4=ext4.
This error did not occur when I was using it on my laptop, but I took the HDD out and mounted it in my girlfriend's computer, she has another Arch installed there, so I don't meed to boot from this disk, just to be able to read it. The password is a disk password - hardware probably, not for encrypted partitions. I could not disable the password because the original laptop doesn't start anymore, and the BIOS settings on this desktop computer does not support HDD password, but only System password.
So, if the HDD had no passwod set, I could tell you if the reading problem comes from some incompatibility issues, but as for now, I can't tell where it comes from, because I need to deactivate its security with hdparm --security-disable first. But this actually looks to not work, or something.
I'm thinking that the mianboard doesn't support this HDD directly connected, the things I'll do next week are:
- buying an external HDD 2.5 rack
- plug it in the USB
- try again hdparm and anything required to make it read.
If this fails, too, probably the only remaining solution is to find someone with an Acer laptop to put this HDD inside and backup my data, or at least deactivate the pass from the bios setings.
Btw, I think this is something worth mentioning to warn the users in general: this Acer 5520G was of very poor quality, things began to crack right after the one year guarantee expired, beginning with the DVD-writer.

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