Greetings!

I have a list in a SP2013 site that project managers use to define a new project. For each project, a "checklist" document need to be created in a secondary document library on the same site. I have a workflow set up that collects project metadata from the new list item and uses that in a "Create List Item" action to create a new instance of the "Checklist" document content type in the document library.

• "Checklist" is a site content type.
• In the document library, the content type is associated with a custom Checklist.xlsm file
• Using the SP UI through the browser to create a new Checklist document works, but the user must manually update associated project metadata in the new document, which is one of the things we're trying to short-cut with having the workflow create the checklist pre-populated with the project metadata.

On it's surface, the workflow seems to be okay. Create a project definition in the list for "My Nifty Project 12345" kicks off the workflow, and in the document library, a new document called Checklist - My Nifty Project - 12345.xlsm is created. Unfortunately, only a zero byte file is created, so the PM cannot open and work with the checklist file.

For organizational reasons, I'm trying to keep this in SPD (as opposed to creating a visual studio project). Any suggestions on what might be causing the workflow to create a zero-byte file instead of a new instance of the associated template file...will be most appreciated.

Thanks!