Hi,
I have been trying to create a custom workflow activity using Sandboxed solutiuon for new site, here is the code which I found on microsoft blog. It creates the Custom workflow activity properly and I could use the Action in my Workflow correctly & publish
the workflow but when I execute the workflow, I get a message in Sharepoint list as Error occured in my workflow column. I tried to log the exception message but it seems that there is no exception message sent out from my custom activity VS solution. Below
is the code which is implemented in the VS solution -
CreateSiteAction.cs
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.UserCode;
namespace SPCreateSiteWorkflowAction
{
public class CreateSiteAction
{
public Hashtable CreateSite(SPUserCodeWorkflowContext context, string siteName)
{
Hashtable results = new Hashtable();
try
{
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(context.CurrentWebUrl))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
web.Webs.Add(
siteName,
"Trip Report: " + siteName,
string.Empty,
1033,
"STS",
false,
false);
}
}
results["success"] = true;
results["exception"] = string.Empty;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
results = new Hashtable();
results["exception"] = e.ToString();
results["success"] = false;
}
return results;
}
}
}
CreateActionDefinition.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<WorkflowActions>
<Action Name="Create Site"
SandboxedFunction="true"
Assembly="$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$"
ClassName="SPDCustomWorkflowActions.CreateSiteAction"
FunctionName="CreateSite"
AppliesTo="all"
UsesCurrentItem="true"
Category="Sandboxed Workflow Actions">
<RuleDesigner Sentence="Create Site with name %1 (exceptions logged to %2)">
<FieldBind Field="siteName" Text="Site Name" Id="1"
DesignerType="TextBox" />
<FieldBind Field="exception" Text="Exception" Id="2"
DesignerType="ParameterNames" />
</RuleDesigner>
<Parameters>
<Parameter Name="__Context"
Type="Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions.WorkflowContext,
Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowActions"
Direction="In"
DesignerType="Hide" />
<Parameter Name="siteName"
Type="System.String, mscorlib"
Direction="In"
DesignerType="TextBox"
Description="Name of the site to create" />
<Parameter Name="exception"
Type="System.String, mscorlib"
Direction="Out"
DesignerType="ParameterNames"
Description="Exception encountered"/>
</Parameters>
</Action>
</WorkflowActions>
</Elements>
Note: We did set the feature scope to Site in Feature1.feature properties.
Please do let us know if you find anything missing inabove code or anything needs to be done in addition to this.
Thanks in advance
Aaquil
