OIM Approval Workflow starting Exception

Hi to all. I'm working with approval workflow in OIM11g and I've followed the OBE for the design of a ResourceSerialApproval Workflow. When submitting a request which is to be approved by this workflow at request level, the request creation fails with this exception:
IAM-2050014:An error occurred while initiating approvals for request oracle.iam.platform.workflowservice.exception.IAMWorkflowException: Unable to instantiate the workflow process due to null. The corresponding error message is {1}.
I've searched this forum for the error and seen that maybe it could be caused by a bad props file when registering the workflow: this is NOT my case. The workflow gets correctly deployed.
Could anyone help me?
Please I have no idea on how to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Giuseppe.

Hi,
Open your approval workflow in Jdev, open "ApprovalProcess.bpel" file in source mode,
Check if custom attribute is getting assigned before the payload is loaded:
something like
<copy>
<from variable="resourceAdmins"/>
<to variable="initiateTaskInput" part="payload"
query="/ns2:initiateTask/task:task/task:payload/task:ResourceAdministrators"/>
</copy>
<copy>
<from>
<payload xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task">
<RequestID xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<RequestModel xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<RequestTarget xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
<url xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/bpel/workflow/task"/>
Regards,
Raghav.

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I am trying to configure a complex workflow in OIM.
I have done the following steps to do this :
1. Made the resource a self-requested resource.
2. Created a provisioning task for this resource.
3. Created an approval task with appropriate assignments.
When I try to trigger this workflow, it works fine and the concerned approver gets the notification as well. But when the approver tries to act upon it(Approve/Reject),
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Unknown Source)
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24)
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sorImpl.java:25)
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er.java:141)
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java:249)
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lInvoker.java:155)
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a:165)
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java:46)
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5)
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onInterceptor.java:97)
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at $Proxy512.updateTask(Unknown Source)
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Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
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java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
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known Source)
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own Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
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sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.dispatchMethod(DispatchActio
n.java:280)
at org.apache.struts.actions.LookupDispatchAction.execute(LookupDispatch
Action.java:252)
at com.thortech.xl.webclient.actions.tcActionBase.execute(Unknown Source
at com.thortech.xl.webclient.actions.tcAction.execute(Unknown Source)
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tProcessor.java:484)
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va:274)
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2)
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icationFilterChain.java:252)
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ilterChain.java:173)
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ssConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744)
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int.java:527)
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kerThread.java:112)
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I have faced the same problem before as well but unable to solve it. Please guide.

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Thank you.-Bikash
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Hi Zhengyu,
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Then out of a sudden it stopped working. New request status is "Failed on start (retrying)". Sometimes (!) status is "In Progress", but no tasks are created. In both cases there is nothing on workflow history and error report is also empty
(it even cause an error "Report contains no data").
I'm sure that I didn't change anything in a workflow. The only think that I changed was an InfoPath form, but I only added there field "Created By", so I would see in calendar later who created this request. I couldn't see how this might affect workflow
process.
I'm confused as I don't even know where to start searching for the solution. Why this might happen? Any ideas are very welcome!

In my list I have a multiple choice field which is not required. When it was
blank my workflow was failing on start! This field was not involved in a workflow directly, I included it only in the email to approver. When I deleted it from an email everything was fine.

OIM Approval Workflow starting Exception

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