While deploying with SharePoint workflow I got an error
saying that “Error occurred in
deployment step 'Activate Features': Unable to locate the workflow's
association data. To restore the association data to the workflow, restart the
workflow settings wizard by selecting the workflow node in Solution Explorer
and then clicking the ellipsis button (…) on one of the properties in the
Properties window that has an ellipsis button”
Workflow is combination of events like task creation, Task updating
and completion. By adding a workflow to the site, we have to specify the task
list and history lists. Instances of task list and history list will track the
events for workflow. Task list allows users to interact with workflow and
history list contains information about the workflow events including date,
status, participant etc.
While creating a new workflow visual studio will associate
the lists. Some cases association will goes away whenever we change or delete
the workflow designer file, we can get association error. To fix this error we
have to set “Auto Associate” property to ‘false’ in workflow properties.
By deploying the
workflow now workflow will deploy without any issues and user will manually go
and create the associations instead of automatic associations.
