Unable to assign a new task item to a SharePoint group via Workflow

Using SharePoint Designer I've created a simple Workflow associated with a
Document Library.

The Workflow can be manually started from any document, and it creates a new
item in a Tasks list.

The Workflow completes succesfully if the new task is assigned to a specific
user.

The Workflow fails if the new task is assigned to a SharePoint group.

The Status is "Error Occurred" and the Workflow History lists the following:

7/17/2008 12:27 PM Error System Account Error updating a list item Unknown
error
7/17/2008 12:27 PM Error System Account An error has occured in Workflow
1.

A new task assigned to a SharePoint group can be created manually via the
web interface, so I'm not sure why it will not work via a Workflow.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Mike
Fri Jul 18 01:06:25 CDT 2008

The design_and_customization newsgroup is the one that covers SPD 2007
questions - including SPD workflow.

Post this question there.

Mike Walsh
WSS FAQ http://www.wssfaq.com / http://wss.collutions.com
no questions by e-mail please



20060524@newsgroups.nospam wrote:
> Using SharePoint Designer I've created a simple Workflow associated with a
> Document Library.
>
> The Workflow can be manually started from any document, and it creates a new
> item in a Tasks list.
>
> The Workflow completes succesfully if the new task is assigned to a specific
> user.
>
> The Workflow fails if the new task is assigned to a SharePoint group.
>
> The Status is "Error Occurred" and the Workflow History lists the following:
>
> 7/17/2008 12:27 PM Error System Account Error updating a list item Unknown
> error
> 7/17/2008 12:27 PM Error System Account An error has occured in Workflow
> 1.
>
> A new task assigned to a SharePoint group can be created manually via the
> web interface, so I'm not sure why it will not work via a Workflow.
>
> Any help is appreciated, thanks!
>
>

sumit
Tue Aug 12 09:15:02 CDT 2008


Did you find any workarounf to this problem. I am having same issue.
Instead of using Person\Group field i created a single line text
field, and it failed again with "error occured". I am starting to
belive that somehow SPD workflow are not aware of Sharepoitn Groups.



On Jul 17, 3:59=A0pm, <20060...@newsgroups.nospam> wrote:
> Using SharePoint Designer I've created a simple Workflow associated with =
a
> Document Library.
>
> The Workflow can be manually started from any document, and it creates a =
new
> item in a Tasks list.
>
> The Workflow completes succesfully if the new task is assigned to a speci=
fic
> user.
>
> The Workflow fails if the new task is assigned to a SharePoint group.
>
> The Status is "Error Occurred" and the Workflow History lists the followi=
ng:
>
> 7/17/2008 12:27 PM Error =A0System Account =A0Error updating a list item =
Unknown
> error
> 7/17/2008 12:27 PM Error =A0System Account =A0An error has occured in Wor=
kflow
> 1.
>
> A new task assigned to a SharePoint group can be created manually via the
> web interface, so I'm not sure why it will not work via a Workflow.
>
> Any help is appreciated, thanks!

20060524
Tue Aug 12 11:32:27 CDT 2008

According to Microsoft: "The August SharePoint server update looks to
resolve this issue. There is not a separate hotfix for this issue."

Apparently this is not an issue with SPD itself and the problem has to be
corrected on the WSS side.