Category Archives: Workflow

External Participant for Task Items

If you’re wondering why you get (External Participant) appended to tasks created with the CreateTask and CreateTaskWithContentType workflow activities and are investigating why it appears that the person who was assigned the task is being marked as an external participant, … Continue reading

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Correlation value on declaration “x” is already initialized

If you’re writing a workflow and are using the CreateTask or CreateTaskWithContentType activities you may come across the following error: System.InvalidOperationException: Correlation value on declaration “Name of your token” is already initialized When adding a token to the create task … Continue reading

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Updating URL field for ExtendedProperties in workflow

I was trying to update a URL field of a task within a custom workflow I was writing and spent a bit more time than I’d have liked trying to get the URL and description to save correctly in the … Continue reading

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Delay Activity in SharePoint Workflow

Trying to use the Delay Activity workflow activity in a SharePoint workflow and having problems with it firing? For SharePoint 2010, the delay activity will only be checked if it has completed the configured delay every time the Workflow timer … Continue reading

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