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SharePoint Workflows: Extend Timeout
Craig Lamb SharePoint 2016 uses new workflow engine. You can check the blog post http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/publishing-custom-events-to-sharepoint-2013-workflowson how to use Custom Events for Long Running External Processes.
Craig Lamb SharePoint 2016 uses new workflow engine. You can check the blog post http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/publishing-custom-events-to-sharepoint-2013-workflowson how to use Custom Events for Long Running External Processes.
Currently our workflows are quite minimal. They are essentially just a queue of Actions to be performed in a desired order.
So, is the idea to...
1. Create the event and wrap all the Action processing in it.
2. Then call it from the workflow so that it all this processes is executed outside of WF.
3. Then once completed WF advances to the next step.
Is the difference in that this will move the processing from the WF to the Service or site?
Craig Lamb If you look at the code published by Andrew Connell https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/officeapps/SharePoint-2013-Route-25a25d87, all your questions will be cleared. I am adding a couple of screenshots for your reference. Please let me know if you still have questions. Thanks.
Thanks. I'll take a look.
I went through and looked at this yesterday. I am struggling with a few things.
The example doesn't have any CS files so I am unable to following in the code.
Our workflow is fully from Visual Studio so we don't use SharePoint designer for much.
I have also looked at the following link...
https://roykim.ca/2013/08/17/sharepoint-2013-workflow-integration-with-the-waitforcustomevent-activity/
I was able to create 'Workflow Custom Activity' and add a wait action; however, I was unable to determine how to call from Visual Studio or integrate with my existing SharePoint workflow in Visual Studio. I was able to determine that though the following is provided...
stsadm -o setproperty -pn workflow-eventdelivery-timeout -pv "30"
It's not honored. I changed the value to 60 and it only allowed the WF to run for about 20 minutes.
I am currently thinking that I need to create a 'Workflow Custom Activity' but I don't see how to tie it to my existing workflows. If I can't, and it's something I call from my client that's fine. However, that will result in some hefty code changes. Currently trying to just create the 'Workflow Custom Activity' place the WaitEvent on it and then call and see if it hits the break points I desire.
Or... have we gone about things wrong in that a Workflow Custom Activity is what we need to call from the page instead of a SharePoint workflow? Thus Workflows are small and light weight while Workflow Custom Activities are for heavy lifting and larger tasks.
Or do I need both... and a Workflow Custom Activity is something called from a Share Point Workflow to process the larger tasks.
Sorry for all the questions. I am finding that there appears to be little information on this, and that you appear to be one of the few experts. :)