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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

SharePoint 2013: Workflow Error ‘Cannot set unknown member’

I was trying to develop a workflow using Visual Studio 2012 for SharePoint 2013. When I was trying to publish the workflow i was getting the following exception:

Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityValidationException: Workflow XAML failed validation due to the following errors:
Cannot set unknown member 'LookupSPListItem.ItemId'.
HTTP headers received from the server………….

Then after googling i had found the hint in the Microsoft Forum.

 

Solution

Basically you need to re-register the workflow using a Powershell command like below. I think when any Workflow Manager or SharePoint update is installed in the server, these two components get out of sync and re-running the registration will sync both again.

Register-SPWorkflowService -SPSite "SiteURL" -WorkflowHostUri 'WorkflowHostURL'  -Force

Remember to mention Force switch. After the command, restart the Visual Studio or SharePoint Designer and hopefully the issue will be fixed.

4 comments:

  1. I was faced with same problem. On developer server workflow deployed ok. On enterprise server deploing same workflow bring the error:

    System.InvalidOperationException: Microsoft.Workflow.Client.ActivityValidationException: Workflow XAML failed validation due to the following errors: Cannot set unknown member 'LookupSPListItem.ItemId'. HTTP headers received from the server - ActivityId: 304fb4ee-901d-43b8-b7ef-a8bcb220d599. NodeId: SP-WFE01. Scope: /SharePoint/default/0f273f2f-d070-4581-869b-a684dfb4710c/e4b00a05-214e-4b0a-995d-fcd25c56d0c1. Client ActivityId : 3c801e9c-334a-10f4-b8e1-3c6fe1cae7af. ---> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request

    Problem was in difference in versions of SharePoint Client Components. For example after instalation SharePoint Server on enterprise server the version of Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.Activities.dll was 15.0.4420. And on developer server after installing Microsof Office Developer Tools for VS 2012 version of Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.Activities.dll was 15.0.4481. In this newest version class LookupSPListItem contain the property ItemId.

    After installing SharePoint Server 2013 Client Components SDK (which is a part of Microsoft Office Developer Tools for VS 2012) on enterprise server error was gone!


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    1. Followed your instructions and got the version '15.0.4615'. I even did a iisreset, however still facing the issue in my Production server which is a x64 machine?

      Please help! Thank you!

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  2. Александр Свиридов,

    You saved us from falling into the black dark whole... This fixed our dev to qa deployment

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  3. got the version '15.0.4615' and still facing the issue. It's kinda urgent. Please help!

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