"Unable to load workflow action from the server. Please contact server administrator" Error message in Sharepoint Designer 2010

Question

Hi All,

I have created a simple workflow in Sharepoint Designer 2010 one month back to trigger a mail on daily basis.

It is working fine, but now when we tried to edit the same, following error is getting popped up.

As a resolution we restarted the server, but that didn’t help.

Please help us in this regard.

Thanks,

Tariq.

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Md. Tariq

Answer 1

Hi Tariq,

Please go to Central administration > system settings > Manage farm solution, and open another page, browse to your site collection > site settings > Solutions, check if you have anything activated at both scopes.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/sharepoint2010customization/thread/c2f6e646-c753-4bca-baaa-c5da2a05546e

If above can't solve your issue, please use Fiddler to troubleshoot the problem. Here is a similar issue for your refer.
http://www.sharepointed.com/2011/08/16/unable-to-load-workflow-actions-from-the-server/

Or can you find more error details in ULS log?

Best regards,
Emir

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Emir Liu

TechNet Community Support

Answer 2

I restored a site collection and started receiving this same error when trying to edit the workflows.  It ended up being the account I was logging into SPD with didn't have permissions to the site.  Once I added the account as a site collection admin, they opened fine and I was able to edit them.