Microsoft KB Archive Search

Notice: This website is an unofficial Microsoft Knowledge Base (hereinafter KB) archive and is intended to provide a reliable access to deleted content from Microsoft KB. All KB articles are owned by Microsoft Corporation. Read full disclaimer for more details.

  1. Home
  2. "Modified by" property is incorrectly set to "System Account" after you approve a workflow in a SharePoint Server 2010

"Modified by" property is incorrectly set to "System Account" after you approve a workflow in a SharePoint Server 2010

View products that this article applies to.

Symptoms

Assume that you add an Approval workflow to a Document Library that has the following options enabled in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010:
  • Start this workflow to approve publishing a major version
  • Update the approval status after the workflow is completed (use this workflow to control content approval)

When you approve the workflow, the "Modified by" property is incorrectly set to System Account, instead of a display name.

↑ Back to the top

Workaround

To work around this issue, follow these steps to set the Approval workflow to start manually, and then disable the workflow to update the workflow status:
  1. Browse to the Document Library.
  2. Click the Library tab.
  3. In the Settings group, click Workflow Settings.
  4. Click the Approval workflow you created.
  5. Select the Allow this workflow to be manually started by an authenticated user with Edit Item permissions option.
  6. Clear the Start this workflow to approve publishing a major version of an item option.
  7. On the next page, clear the Update the approval status after the workflow is completed (use this workflow to control content approval) option.
  8. Click OK to save the changes.

↑ Back to the top

Keywords: kbsurveynew, kbtshoot, kbexpertiseinter, kb

↑ Back to the top

Article Info
Article ID : 2826160
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 3/21/2013
Exists online : False
Views : 211