SingleTask activity in SharePoint 2013 workflow - Send Assignemnt Email

Hi,
I'm using SharePoint 2013 SingleTask activity to create and assign task. However, on task assignment, user is getting notification though the alert is disabled in list level. There's no property in SingleTask expect 'SendReminderEmail' to define in the activity
if I would like to send notification or not. Is there any way I can configure in SingleTask activity not to send 'task assignment' notification? My Single Task properties are given below:
Thanks,
Sohel Rana
http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com

Hi,
Any body has the solution of this. I am using SP 2013 on-premises env and developed a workflow using visual studio. I want to disable the default Task email and tried powershell given in different other articals.
$list=$web.Lists.TryGetList("Workflow Tasks List")
if($list -ne $null)
$list.EnableAssignToEmail =$false
$list.Update()
and same code using c#, but both are not working. After changing the enableAssignToEmail property of list, I can see that property has changed and value is false. However mail is still coming for task. Restarted Workflow Manager service and IIS.
Please provide if any body has solution of this.

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Best regards Lars Kohsel

Hi,
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cliffgreen/archive/2013/03/11/sharepoint-2013-workflow-deployment-errors.aspx
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If it works, the we can use the new project instead of the original project.
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Hi
XantosX5 ,
Thank you for your posting!
According to your description, I try to reproduce your scenario in my SharePoint Server 2013 environment.
I create a lookup column in a list and create a workflow 2013 for the list. In the workflow, I add Send an email action. Then I display the lookup column in the body of the email as the below figure:
When I start the workflow, it works fine.
Have you installed
the workflow manager 1.0 cumulative update 1 ? It can be the point. If not, please install it.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
Best Regards,
Eric
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Site structure is the same as Hhancocks:
Site Collection
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{"error":{"code":"-2147024891, System.UnauthorizedAccessException","message":{"lang":"en-US","value":"Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this
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http://www.sharepointviking.com/system-unauthorizedaccessexception-when-running-sharepoint-2013-workflows/
http://www.sharepointmaestra.com/Blog/Post/1/Workflow-2013-Not-Starting-on-Incoming-Email
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Sharepoint 2013 Workflow not available on Site created from Sharepoint 2013 Foundation Solution Template

If I create a template on SharePoint 2013 Foundation, then create a site on SharePoint Enterprise (or Office/365) fully configured to support SharePoint 2013 workflows. When I access the site through SharePoint Designer 2013, and attempt to create a workflow
SharePoint 2013 Workflows are not available -- you get message that SharePoint 2013 Workflow platform is not available because it is not configured on the server. This appears to be a bug in SharePoint Designer as the 2013 Workflows are available on the team
site on the same site collection. There is no reason that a site created from a SharePoint 2013 foundation template should have this restriction.   To make matters worse if you then save that site as a template on the SharePoint 2013 Enterprise (or
Office/365) system and create a new site from the that template you get the same issue.
Anyone know a workaround/fix to this issue.   Have imported the template into Visual Studio but I can not find any way in Visual Studio to enable SharePoint 2013 workflows.   A solution that involves Visual Studio import would work fine
for me.
Earllibby

Apparently you did not read my question very carefully.   The workflow manager is configured properly on this server and for the basic Team site in this site collection the full SharePoint 2013 workflows are available in SharePoint Designer 2013.
BUT they are not available on another site in the SAME SITE COLLECTION that was created from a solution template that was created on a SharePoint Foundation server.
Earllibby

Sharepoint 2010 Workflow successful: Sharepoint 2013 Workflow UNsuccessful:

Observation 1
1. I created 2 workflows that write "completed" to the workflow history
a. 1 workflow uses sp2010 workflow manager
b. 1 workflow uses sp2013 workflow manager
2. sp2010 workflow works fine; it will start either manually or automatically (when a new item is created ) without issue; "completed' is written to the log as expected. Good.
3. sp2013 does not start automatically (when a new item is created ); when trying to start manually I get error message "Something went wrong. To try again, reload the page and then start the workflow." Which I do, but still fails.
Bad.
4.On Workflows.aspx I can see the links to start the 2 workflows manually.
a. When I hover over the sp2010 workflow link I can see something that look like this:
http://playground/sites/falcontt/_layouts/15/IniWrkflIP.aspx?List={ae95de8e-508b-4aa6-b4b6-490288e35e9f}&ID=53&ItemGuid={697E4218-D889-4FB8-A27B-D188F5D93250}&TemplateID={199c3d86-89a8-4286-b285-37e2d2067b52}&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fplayground%2Fsites%2Ffalcontt%2FLists%2FTrouble%2520Tickets%2Fall%2520requests%2Easpx
b. But when I hover over the sp2013 workflow link I can see something that look like this:
javascript:StartWorkflow4('949cb889-9b46-4959-9673-842e60cc5a42', '53', '{697E4218-D889-4FB8-A27B-D188F5D93250}')
Should this link also look similar to the sp2010 workflow link? If so, do you have any idea why it is different?
Observation 2
In Sharepoint Designer 2013, when I goto Navigation -> Workflows and click on the 2010 workflow, I see a file listed under "Forms" that looks like this "sp2010 test workflow.xsn". By the way the name of the workflow happens
to be "sp2010 test workflow".
But when I goto Navigation -> Workflows and click on the 2013 workflow, I see a NO file listed under "Forms". Should I see "sp2013 test workflow.xsn" listed there? If yes, can you think of why it is not listed there?
I saved the workflow debug logs from Event Viewer but won't share that info here unless necessary, to avoid making things look more complicated than they have to be.
Thanks for any comments suggestions, tips, questions, anything, etc.
Thanks and have a great weekend.
George

Hi George,
First of all, I'd like to clarify that workflow manager is dedicated for SharePoint 2013 workflow platform. SharePoint 2010 workflow is integrated in SharePoint server, while 2013 workflow is based on a new platform named workflow manager server.
In SharePoint 2013 designer, 2010 workflow has forms while 2013 workflow doesn't have forms.
For this issue, I suspect there is something incorrect with workflow manager. From the error message "Something went wrong. To try again, reload the page and then start the workflow", please flush the DNS cache via executing
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS, and restart workflow manager related services such as below, then recreate 2013 workflow to test the issue:
Service Bus Gateway
Service Bus Message Broker
http://blog.houratious.com/2014/05/sharepoint-2013-workflow-something-went.html
Regards,
Rebecca Tu
TechNet Community Support

SharePoint 2013 Workflow Calendar Entry Create Time AM PM Conflict

Windows 2012, SharePoint 2013 Enterprise.
I have a change control form that basically creates a calendar entry once it's been approved. Works well, but discovered a bug with the calendar create portion when there are events that have the same time in AM\PM.
Use case:
1. Create a change control item in the list with a planned start time of 2PM, I'll approve it, which then fires off a workflow and it will create an event in the change control calendar for 2PM, all good.
2. Create another change control item in the list with a planned start time of 2AM this time, I'll approve it, which then fires off a workflow and it will create an event in the change control calendar for 2PM and not 2AM. ???
Yes the original event entry created in the list shows planned start time of 2AM, but its being created in the calendar entry as 2PM. This only happens when the time is exact. For example if I had created the second entry at 3PM, it will create the calendar
entry at 3PM. It only happens if there is an existing entry for the same time, then all subsequent entries for the same time will have the same AM\PM depending on the first entry.
I can manually create an entry in the calendar and specify 2PM and it will take, so its something with the workflow that is causing it. The workflow is very simple all its doing is checking the item to see if the field says approved for the change request
form if so, create calendar event and carry over the fields, planned start time, planned end time, title description, that's it.
James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Hi James,
In my test per your description, I cannot reproduce the issue, however, I attached the screenshot of my test for your reference, let me know if there is misunderstanding.
Please capture the screenshot of your workflow process design so I can try to reproduce or find out if there is action that may cause the issue.
In addition, could you please try to locate workflow error message? If there is obvious error information, please refer to the Activate Workflow Manager Logs part in the article below:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vincent_runge/archive/2014/01/07/troubleshooting-actions-for-sharepoint-2013-workflows.aspx
Regards,
Rebecca Tu
TechNet Community Support
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SharePoint 2013 workflow task 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 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.
Thanks,
Wendy
Forum Support
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