Thursday, September 26, 2013

How to use SharePoint workflow 2013 if this is not fixed.

I have been checking out the SharePoint workflow 2013, which gave many exciting new features and I am all up to try it in demo. Then I found this article here. It said if you develop a workflow in Visual studio 2012 and deploy it, then any later changes for the workflow will not get updated in the SharePoint. It seems that you can only develop the workflow once and if it is wrong, you can not update it, you need to start again for a new one. WTF.

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/779905/sharepoint-2013-workflow-deployment-doenst-update-workflow-definition

Luckily, there is a fix as the workaround tab mentioned from the link above.
A vssphost5.exe process needs to be terminated before deploy.

And this link,
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/8420797e-cb85-4949-9e0e-5060a9060c10/how-to-update-copy-of-sharepoint-2013-azure-workflow

And the official known workflow issues article is a must read.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/sharepoint-server-2013-known-issues-HA102919021.aspx#_SharePoint_Designer

No comments: