# Thursday, January 28, 2010
The status of a workflow appears as "Failed to Start" when you try to start a workflow from a survey response in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Consider the following scenario. You create a survey, and then you add a workflow to the survey in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Then, you connect to the survey and respond to it. Finally, you view the response that you submitted, and then you try to start a workflow from the response. To do this, you click the arrow next to the response, click Workflows, click the workflow that you added, type your user name in the Reviewers box, and then click Start. However, the workflow does not start. Instead, the status of the workflow appears as Failed to Start.

This issue occurs because starting a workflow from a survey response is not supported in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Although the Workflows option appears when you click the arrow next to a survey response, you cannot start a workflow from a survey response.

General | Workflow
posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010 8:21:45 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] Trackback
# Wednesday, March 25, 2009
SharePoint Designer Workflow Does Not Start Automatically

After you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, declarative workflows will not start automatically if the following conditions are true:

1. The Windows SharePoint Services Web application runs under a user's domain account.
2. The user logs in by using this domain account.
3. The site displays the user name as System Account.

Here is the link to the solution :  http://kbalertz.com/947284/declarative-workflow-start-automatically-after-install-Windows-SharePoint-Services-Service.aspx  

Errors and Solutions | Sharepoint Designer | Workflow
posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:56:32 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [2] Trackback
# Saturday, March 21, 2009
Applying a SharePoint Designer Workflow to Multiple Lists

To re-use a workflow in another list:

Create a new workflow on the new list.Create at least one step, one condition and one action in this workflow. This ensures that the files shown above are created and they will be replaced by the next operations.From the original workflow open the .xoml file as XML and copy the entire contents to the clipboard.Open the .xoml file for the new workflow and replace the entire contents with the copy from (3).Repeat this operation for the xoml.rules file.Double click the .xoml file for the new workflow to open the workflow in the Workflow Designer and clickCheck Workflow to verify no errors and then click Finish to ensure the workflow is saved.

Original post on  Nick Grattan 's blog
Sharepoint Designer | Workflow
posted on Saturday, March 21, 2009 9:55:42 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] Trackback
# Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Multi-Value Columns in Sharepoint Designer

Workflow Engine knows how to send e-mail to a column with “Allow multiple selections” but it’s the SharePoint Designer UI that doesn’t. If you want to send an email message to "People or Group" type field that includes "Allow Multiple Selection" you can do this via following instructions.

    Turn off “Allow multiple selections” for your column. Create your workflow. (Create a send an email action and select your people and group field) Finish your workflow and then publish it. Turn back on “Allow multiple selections”

Thats all :), It is an "hacky" solution but it works
Workflow | Sharepoint Designer
posted on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:51:13 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Comments [0] Trackback

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