Hi,
I am getting an error in Sharepoint Designer 2007 when i want to start a new workflow. The error is: FAILED TO LOAD THE WORKFLOW.
I searched the www but can't find a solution. Please help me, i am on a deadline:(
Sorry,
but I can′t understand.
In the Sharepoint Designer you create the Workflow for a Sharepoint Portal, or a Sharepoint Site. I think the first or second step is to define, when the Workflow has to start:
After creating, you have to go to the Sharepoint list, documentbib where the workflow shall be started. A new column will be created, so you can see if the workflow has worked fine.
Have a nice day
Frank
In Sharepoint Designer you can design a new workflow for a sharepoint site. When i want to create one i get the error: cannot load the workflow.
I start the tool: file -> new -> workflow
I want to use this because i cannot add actions to a workflow when i add a workflow on the site.
Ok, we missunderstood,
Please check first, if the settings for userdefined Workflows are activated.
You check this in the Central Administration --> Application... (I have a german installation) . There you will find Workflowsettings. Here has to be activated userdefined Workflows.
Then start the designer --> open the website (File --> Website open) and then File --> New --> Workflow.
If all this has not worked fine, then delete the Sharepoint Designer from your System and install it a second time, or install the Sharepoint designer test version from the micorsoft download site. This one works fine.
Good luck
Frank
Hi,
I checked the usedefined workflow properties, it was set to enabled, so that's fine.
Then i re-installed Office Sharepoint Designer 2007 and i still got the same error. I download the TEST/TRAIL version from the microsoft site, installed it and still got the error.
I can't find a solution on the internet.
Do i have to install other software beside: Sharepoint services 3.0 and Sharepoint designer 2007?
Is there an other way to get the workflow options you can set in Sharepoint Designer?
thank you in advance
Willem
Have you installed .Net 3 on the same machine as SharePoint Designer?
You'll need the Workflow Foundation component in it to create custom workflow solutions, I think.
Hello,
My SP Designer was creating workflows well on my client XP machine untill I installed, dotnetfx.exe, .net 2. Afterwhich the message "Failed to load the workflow" appeared, I then upgraded to .net 3 in hope to resolve the problem, nothing, reinstalled .net 3, nothing, then reinstalled SP designer and checked that Workflow setting in Central Administration is on, nothing seems to work.
Has anyone found a solution for this?
Hi !
I have a same problem and I can't create a workflow.
everything seems to be correct but it didn't work !
.Net 3 is correctly installed , SP Designer is also correctly installed & user define workflow is also enabled.... but I still get the error like you !
Didn't anyone find a solution for this problem ?
Hi I'm also getting the same error...has anyone managed to resolve this since the last post?
Would appreciate the help...Matt
A colleague and I are seeing the same error on his machine. Interestingly, when we run SharePoint Designer as a different user (me instead of him) on the same machine, the error does not appear. In other words:
Everything else is the same: same machine, same web site that we're opening in SharePoint Designer... That seems to suggest it's a problem with user registry settings. Question is, which one(s)?
After extensive pounding of my head against the wall, I found something that worked in my situation in regard to this error. I went to Documents and Settings > (my account) > Application Data > Microsoft > SharePoint Designer > ProxyAssemblyCache, deleted the folder in there, and when I restarted SharePoint Designer and started a new workflow, it obtained the information from the server and opened the workflow. Hope this helps!
willemspaan wrote:
Hi,
I checked the usedefined workflow properties, it was set to enabled, so that's fine.
Then i re-installed Office Sharepoint Designer 2007 and i still got the same error. I download the TEST/TRAIL version from the microsoft site, installed it and still got the error.
I can't find a solution on the internet.
Do i have to install other software beside: Sharepoint services 3.0 and Sharepoint designer 2007?
Is there an other way to get the workflow options you can set in Sharepoint Designer?
thank you in advance
Willem
Silly question, but you are loading the site you want to create the workflow with first, right?
Documents and Settings > (my account) > Application Data > Microsoft > SharePoint Designer > ProxyAssemblyCache, deleted the folder in there, and when I restarted SharePoint Designer and started a new workflow, it obtained the information from the server and opened the workflow
