Comments on: Changing the Task list for SharePoint Designer Workflows

By: Nick Grattan

Nick Grattan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:23:30 +0000

Derek, good info! Thanks, Nick.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:19:43 +0000

Great info. Problems arise if you have already written the workflow and created the task. You just have to recreate that step and save the workflow.

Many thanks

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:51:21 +0000

Worked a charm, cheers this was going to hold me up if I couldn’t figure out away of reconfiguring which task list this gets set too.

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By: Sanket Shah

Sanket Shah — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:24:01 +0000

Can I attached my custom list with “Collect data from user” actions? actually my goal would be to enter/edit data into custom list other than “Task” list …

Thanks,
Sanket

By: Goodmedalist

Goodmedalist — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:07:28 +0000

To get the TaskListId click Settings > List Settings, then it will be in the address bar after “…?List=”. You might have to url-decode the value.

Changing the TaskListId alone will not work because the content-type will not exist in the new list. Change the TaskListID in the .wfconfig.xml file in Sharepoint Designer, then re-create your Collect Data action. Re-creating the Collect Data action creates the missing content-type for the Collect Data action.

By: ryan shell

ryan shell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:38:22 +0000

i also couldn’t get it to work, but i was able to follow this: http://thingsthatshouldbeeasy.blogspot.com/2007/10/sharepoint-designer-2007-workflow-on.html. basically, Eugene Rosenfeld is pointing out that SPD picks the “first” task list. what’s the “first” task list? the one whose title starts with the letter earliest in the alphabet. in my case, i had “Tasks” and “Workflow Tasks”, so i just renamed the “Workflow Tasks” list to “AutoTasks.” of course i didn’t want to have to re-create the workflow, so i just deleted the wfconfig.xml file and the form (although i’m not sure if you really need to delete the form) and it worked. the only thing i had to do was go back and re-select the list i wanted the WF associated with and i also had to set-up the initiation variables again. good luck!
~ryan shell

By: Marek

Marek — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:48:52 +0000

Hey,

unfortunately it doesn’t work for me either. I’m sure the Id(GUID) is OK, as I copied it from Audience targeting settings – as suggested by Ken Pespisa in the other entry of your blog, and I’m sure it is a Task list.
Any ideas what might go wrong?
Marek

By: ignazio

ignazio — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:42:15 +0000

Hello and thank you for your post.
Quick question: Could it be possible from one workflow to collect data from different users and show up on different task lists; for example one named “Review Task List” and another named “Approval Task List”.
can i add another tag to the WokrflowConfig tag with a second task id list?

thank you for your help

Ignazio

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