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SharePoint Workflow not publishing

Recently i encountered with a major problem. I created a Workflow using a SharePoint designer and publish it. But when i did some changes and publish it is publishing and SharePoint also  showing it as a latest version by putting existing one as a previous version. But  the functionality remain the same. It took many days to identify actually workflow is not publishing to the server, it will publish same old workflow though i modify it.

SharePoint Designer cache workflow activities in the local user folder. thus it is actually publishing the cached workflow but not the original one.

so use following steps to clear the designer cache.

Go to C:\Users\username

and then go to \AppData\Local\Microsoft\WebsiteCache (AppData is a hidden folder so you can use the explorer to access the folder)

and Delete the cache which named in your site name.

Comments

Albert Hobson said…
Still yet never faced such problems but in future it may and in this terms your post is quite useful to me as I deal with SharePoint on the daily basis.
Melick thank you so much !!!! Thank you Thank you Thank you
Anonymous said…
This hasnt worked for me, any chance you have any other suggestions?
Anonymous said…
Thank you. Really needed this great post
Anonymous said…
Thank you a lot. I spent hours searching a solution for this problem.

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