Hi,

I am working as an intern in a company and one of my tasks was to create workflow to approve documents in document library. So I learned how to use SharePoint Designer to create workflows, everything was working OK and I made some basic workflows (still learning SharePoint, so nothing too advanced). But today, after few changes and publishes, I started to get error when publishing. 

The SP Designer error is:

"Cannot insert this action. To use task process actions, the Office SharePoint Server Standard Site features must be enabled for this site by an administrator."

and if i click Advanced button, I get:

"Unexpected error on server associating the workflow"

When I check the workflow for errors, it says that there are no errors. I also tried some basic solutions, like restarting everything, deleting the workflow and creating new one, deleting all workflows on the site, but nothing changed, still the same error.

Any help would be really appreciated,

Thanks

EDIT: Seems like I found a solution. I just deleted content of %username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SharePoint Designer\ProxyAssemblyCache and after that I wasable to publish workflow (at least for now)

Credit to: http://techvier.blogspot.cz/2013/11/spd-2013-error-workflow.html

• Edited by Duchy90 16 hours 28 minutes ago

https://support.office.com/en-au/article/When-I-insert-a-workflow-task-I-get-an-error-53aefea5-5778-42df-b451-388984ed529e

The cause

The most likely cause is that the action youre trying to insert isnt supported in SharePoint Online for Office 365 for small businesses and professionals.

The following workflow actions are supported only in SharePoint Server 2010 and in SharePoint Online for Office 365 for enterprises.

• Append Task

• Capture a Version of the Document Set

• Declare Record

• Delegate Task

• Document Set Actions

• End Task Process

• Escalate Task

• Forward Task

• Insert Task

• Lookup Manager of a User

• Reassign Task

• Request a Change

• Rescind Task

• Send Document Set to Repository

• Send Task Email

• Set Content Approval Status (as author)

• Set Content Approval Status of the Document Set

• Set Task Field

• Start Approval Process

• Start Custom Task Process

• Start Document Set Approval Process

• Start Feedback Process

• Undeclare Record

• Wait for Change in Task Process Item

Are you using PWA site, make sure below features are activated on PWA site

http://spandps.com/2012/04/03/spd-2010-cannot-insert-this-action-sp2010-sharepoint-ps2010-msproject-projectserver-in/

Features enabled at the site collection (PWA):

• Standard
• Enterprise
• Publishing

Features enabled at the site (PWA):

• Standard
• Enterprise
• Publishing

Features enabled at the site (Project Site):

• Standard
• Enterprise

Thanks for your answer, but that is not the case. I was able to publish simillar workflow before. And right now I cant even publish empty workflow, or just republish existing, working workflow on other site ... always get that error.

Hi Duchy- usually that means that the workflow feature isn't enabled at the site collection level. I'd double check them. Maybe someone changed the settings.

Hi, thanks for answer. Workflow was enabled on my sites, so it was not the case. But I found a solution (deleting local temp files) and edited my original post with the solution. Thanks anyways.