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What happens when workflow fails to start or run?
Looking in the Workflow History for the list item, you see the following: And this experience is repeatable. Each time the workflow is triggered; it first fails to start; it then fails to run; and then, a few minutes later, it does in fact complete.
Looking in the Workflow History for the list item, you see the following: Date Occurred Event Type Description 9/1/2015 10:25 AM Error [workflow] failed to start 9/1/2015 10:25 AM Error [workflow] failed to run 9/1/2015 10:49 AM Comment [workflow] triggered
What is the information management policy for retention?
Information Management Policy for retention involves to key timer jobs: Expiration policy and Information management policy. The first look at each list item and applies the information management policy retention setting that you configured, updating the hidden Expiration Date column for a list item.
How do you create a workflow in Excel?
Select “Created” field in the columns dropdown. And specify 0 in the textbox and select days in the dropdown. On Stage properties dialog select “Start a workflow” in the action dropdown and in start this workflow dropdown select the workflow that you want to start and click on OK button in the dialog. Click on OK button on Edit Policy Page.
It shows Status:”Failed on Start” and below errors in workflow history list: There was an update recently that (might) caused some issues with workflows. This is not a SharePoint update, but it affects SHarePoint. Check if you have any of these KB’s installed:
How to create and apply information management policies?
To specify a retention period for documents and items that are subject to this policy, choose Enable Retention, and then specify the retention period and the actions that you want to occur when the items expire. To specify a retention period: Choose Add a retention stage for records.