I ran into an issue where hyperlinks in workflow task emails where being automatically changed by SharePoint from absolute hyperlinks to relative ones. Scenario: You create a custom Visual Studio workflow and use the CreateTask activity. You set your SPWorkflowTaskProperties.Description property to some HTML text. In your Description HTML text, you have an html hyperlink…

This is an old one, but some co-workers ran into this again recently on a project. When you have a SharePoint workflow that assigns tasks (either Designer or Visual Studio workflow), when you change the Assigned To column on the task list to allow Multiple Selections, your workflow will hang and become unresponsive when a…

Recently I saw an access denied error when a user tried to edit a SharePoint Designer workflow task. The error did not occur if the user was a site collection administrator, but did occur even if they had full control to the site, list, and task list. Running through the Request Access pages, it appeared…