In testing the MOSS Workflow Web Service operations I’m adding to our jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, I was getting an error sometimes when I called the StartWorkflow operation: Exception from HRESULT: 0x8102009B Turns out this occurs if there is a prior instance of the same workflow which has terminated in an error, showing…
Here’s an update to an earlier post of mine about the “Failed to load the workflow” error in SharePoint Designer. This time when the error popped up, I was working on my Vista laptop. In Vista, the user settings are in a different place, and I had a little trouble finding them. Go to C:\users\[your_username]\appdata\roaming\microsoft\sharepoint…
At one of my clients, I’m using a pretty simple SharePoint Designer workflow to manage their Purchase Order approval process. About half the time, the workflow runs fine. The other half, the workflow instance gets stuck with the status ‘Failed on Start (retrying)’. If I terminate the “stuck” instance and fire it off again manually,…
My client was seeing an odd error in one of their environments, bot not any of the others. When you would go to configure an out-of-the-box workflow on a site, you’d see the "The form cannot be displayed because session state is not available." error after clicking Next on the first configuration screen (/_layouts/AddWrkfl.aspx). Some…
I’m working at a new client and just getting the machine that they have me using working the way I like it. I tried to open a workflow in SharePoint Designer and got the popup dialog: “Failed to load the workflow.” (I had already loaded .NET 3.0 to get the Workflow Foundation Classes.) A…