Showing posts with label Workflow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Workflow. Show all posts

Friday, March 28, 2014

SharePoint workflow deployment issue: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Activate Features’, Unable to locate workflow association data

While deploying with SharePoint workflow I got an error saying that “Error occurred in deployment step 'Activate Features': Unable to locate the workflow's association data. To restore the association data to the workflow, restart the workflow settings wizard by selecting the workflow node in Solution Explorer and then clicking the ellipsis button (…) on one of the properties in the Properties window that has an ellipsis button

Workflow is combination of events like task creation, Task updating and completion. By adding a workflow to the site, we have to specify the task list and history lists. Instances of task list and history list will track the events for workflow. Task list allows users to interact with workflow and history list contains information about the workflow events including date, status, participant etc.

While creating a new workflow visual studio will associate the lists. Some cases association will goes away whenever we change or delete the workflow designer file, we can get association error. To fix this error we have to set “Auto Associate” property to ‘false’ in workflow properties.



 By deploying the workflow now workflow will deploy without any issues and user will manually go and create the associations instead of automatic associations.