User ID as "System Account" in Workflow History

Question

 

Hi,

I am using Sharepoint Designer Workflow. When I check the workflow history I can see the User ID as "System Account" and not actually the user who completed the task. Please let me know how I can change the User ID to that particular user instead of system account.

 

 

Answer 1

Has anyone resolved this issue?  I am having the same problem where in the Workflow History page the User ID is System Account instead of the user who actually completed the workflow.  I've read that there are some issues with application pool account, so I did change that to a new user account in Central Admin and still same problem exists.

 

Thanks in advance!

Scott

Answer 2

Workflows run as System, not individual users.  You can access user information through the workflowProperties object (workflowProperties.OriginatorUser to get you the person who started the workflow), otherwise through the task itself directly

Hope that helps...

Dave

 

 

Answer 3

Yes Dave.  That does help and does make sense.  Thanks for the post!

Answer 4

Sorry can you go in to a bit more details for us noobies

Alan

Answer 5

Unfortunatly you only answered half of the question and I need the answer for the second bit.

How do you change the user that comes up in the workflow history? My example is a task's OnChanged event. When a user fills in an InfoPath form and submits that, the workflow history needs to show up for that user, not for the system account. You can get the user that submitted the form from the executor property in OnTaskChanged. A small gottya here is that you have to bind a local field to the property in the designer and get the value from that else you won't get anything.

What I want to know is what do you then do with that value? If you were adding the workflow history log event yourself then you could set the user but as it's an automatic thing for a said task, how can I control that?