Project Management

Tech Support: Activate out-of-the-box Workflow for Document Library in Project Site

November 5, 2020 01:57 PM

In PWA Project Site sometime the out-of-the-box Workflow 2010 (WF2010) for document library approval is not enabled by default (as below).

And when you try to enable it from the site collection feature, you could get an error message.

The Solution to Activating Document Library:

Navigate to Site Settings >> Manage site collection features
Find and activate the workflows site collection feature
“Aggregated set of out-of-box workflow features provided by SharePoint”
If you find that the feature is already activated, then you need to deactivate it and then reactivate it again.

When you try to reactivate this feature, you may get the below error message
“A list, survey, discussion board, or document library with the specified title already exists in this Web site. Please choose another title”

Steps to Activate Document Library:

Open SharePoint designer2013
Connect to your PWA site
Go to “All Files” >> _catalogs
Find the folder “wfpub” and rename it
Go to the PWA URL
Navigate to Site Settings >> Manage site collection features
Activate the workflow feature “Aggregated set of out-of-the-box workflow features provided by SharePoint”

This should now resolve the issue.