Workflow LogToHistoryList UserID and Task Activity Executor in SharePoint
This topic is within a SharePoint 2007 workflow, how do we get the Workflow History to reflect the user who modified a task, rather than the "System Account". I've successfully implemented the solution suggested by Julie Kramer , from the office dev blog. Here we go: snippet of a workflow design in VS2008 - focus on the two red activities Assign a new field to the Executor property of the OnTaskChanged activity in question (you'll see this property in the property window on the activity). Note we use this new field in a later LogToHistoryListActivity's Method_Invoking() by assigning the UserID property of the LogToHistoryListActivity's object Add a userid lookup/helper function to guarantee a valid SharePoint user id is in place private SPUser GetUserObject(string accountID) { try { if (accountID.IndexOf(@"\") > 0) { SPUser use...