Problem with UWL

Hi All,
I have an issue from the Portal user that when he wants to nominate a person for receiving the notifications in his absense, he is actually not receiving them for a particular task.
But if the assignee tries to do it for all tasks then the nominee is receiving all the notifications.
Kindly let me know what is missing or what can be done for the solution.
Regards
DK

Thanks Haydn ,
For your so quick reply. I checked my UWL system object configuration. Its showing that system login is via SAPLOGONTICKET not by UIDPW.
After that we have maintained ITS Settings in UWL system.. so the previous problem is not coming now but a new problem is coming -
404 ERROR
SYSTEM COULD NOT FIND THE RESOURCE.
Please try to help on this as i have already deployed the applciation and without UWL link its running fine in the system.
Thanks,
Roshan

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