We use SharePoint for our document system with an approval workflow. From 1/19/12 to 11/13/12 there have been 4344 tasks completed, cancelled or still open. On 11/9/12 Starting at 7:15:23 a new task was added to 159 of the 4344 total tasks.
The modified by name was the same for all of these (he was really busy that morning). On 11/13/12 it happened again. Now he was really busy. 4217 tasks were updated that morning in a 12 minute period.
Checking back, this first happened on 8/16/12 and was manifested by email alerts. I told the organization to relax, the sky wasn't falling and see if it repeated itself. It didn't repeat until 11/9/12. The interesting aspect of this is that the modified
time is the same for the 11/13/12 tasks as for the 8/16/12 tasks - starting at 9:55 AM until it completes at 10:07 AM. So it appears that a job is automatically executing at approximately 9:55 AM, updating the version history with a new version showing it
being modified and triggering alerts for all the "cancelled" workflows. We got alerts for workflows that were cancelled and then re-initiated as well as those that were cancelled and not re-initiated. 8/16/12 to 11/13/12 is 89 days. Another note, the individual
who was so busy is usually the first person in engineering in the morning to approve documents (on 11/9 he did it at 6:10 AM) why is it his name being attached to all these updates?
Sample data from versioning of 1 task:
6.0 11/13/2012 9:55 AM Wolny, Stan
5.0 11/9/2012 7:04 AM Wolny, Stan
4.0 8/16/2012 9:54 AM
Wolny, Stan Start Date 2/15/2012
3.0 2/15/2012 9:25 AM System Account
% Complete 100 %
2.0 2/15/2012 9:25 AM Turley, Brian
Status Completed
Can anyone point us in the right direction to find the program that is executing? Thanks a bunch. Anthony
