{"id":2154,"date":"2016-04-04T09:08:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T09:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2024-05-02T07:21:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T07:21:53","slug":"workflow-error-in-sp2013-related-to-app-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/workflow-error-in-sp2013-related-to-app-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Workflow error in SP2013 related to App Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a situation when my workflows went to \u201cSuspended\u201d after a few minutes. I noticed this occured when I used the \u201cApp Step\u201d. Looking at the \u201cSuspended\u201d state, there was an \u201ci\u201d icon, when clicked, showed this error:<\/p>\n

Details: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the workflow instance. Exception details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 401 {\u201cerror_description\u201d:\u201dThe server was unable to process the request due to an internal error<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is how the error actually consistently appears:<\/p>\n

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It turns out the App Step will not work, without specific configuration to grant the App Step rights.So of course some permission issue was most probable. And I was suspicious of App Step, as I mentioned yesterday as the proximate cause.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It turns out the App Step will not work, without specific configuration to grant the App Step rights.<\/p>\n

So of course some permission issue was most probable. And I was suspicious of App Step, as I mentioned yesterday as the proximate cause.<\/p>\n

So configured the permission as below link:
\nhttps:\/\/www.dmcinfo.com\/latest-thinking\/blog\/id\/8661\/create-site-from-template-using-SharePoint-2013-workflow
\nOne more thing, we need specify the Scope URL as below<\/p>\n

On the subweb, you will find the configuration setting for app permission: http :[SPWeb URL] \/_layouts\/15\/appinv.aspx<\/p>\n

You can see it set up from here:
\n[site URL] \/_layouts\/15\/appprincipals.aspx?Scope=Web
\nHere is the feature to enable:<\/p>\n

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For App Step Permissions, it is the 3rd link under permissions from Site Settings.<\/p>\n

Here is how the specific App Step Permission appears when viewed from Site Settings App Step Permissions:<\/p>\n

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With the permissions granted, the workflows should then work on retry. You can retry from the workflow summary page shown on top. Let\u2019s understood\u00a0SharePoint Online Infrastructure Services.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I had a situation when my workflows went to \u201cSuspended\u201d after a few minutes. I noticed this occured when I used the \u201cApp Step\u201d. Looking at the \u201cSuspended\u201d state, there was an \u201ci\u201d icon, when clicked, showed this error: Details: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the workflow instance. Exception details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sp2013","category-workflow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poiseddevelopers.com\/reality-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}