SharePoint Designer- Unable to open a workflow - WWF .NET 3.0, must be installed to use the feature

Every day is a learning day and If we don’t learn a new thing today, the day is wasted.

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday ~ ~Abraham Lincoln 

I would like to write something on the SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow. Recently I started receiving the message from SharePoint Designer 2013 when I open a workflow that was deployed on MS Project Online and workflows is working as expected but I wanted to check the steps in Workflow. The message that received is below and when you click on OK, You see a message that File is deleted from site or site is having issues, try refreshing to resolve but nothing worked.

This was kind of confusing for me as I had the .NET framework 4.5 and that should include all the previous versions of .NET framework. If you go online for solution, you may find many such as installation of Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation), hot fixes etc but before we try any of the solution, Try below steps.

1. Exit SharePoint Designer (if you have it open in your machine) and Delete the SharePoint Designer Cache. Use below commands in CMD

rmdir "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WebsiteCache\" /s /q

rmdir "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\SharePoint Designer\ProxyAssemblyCache\" /s /q

2. Restart the SharePoint Designer.
3. Open the Site and Click Workflows in site objects
4. Workflow should be opened and should be editable.

Happy learning.

Project Online- Bulk Edit Free on Office Store

Project Server Bulk Edit add-in

Project Server Bulk Edit add-in enables the quick updating of project fields directly from PWA. Bulk Edit is designed from the ground up to take advantage of the features of SharePoint and Project Server 2013, 2016 and Project Online for fast performance and easy edits of hundreds of projects at once.

Usage

Once installed from the SharePoint App Store, the Bulk Edit icon becomes available on the Project Centre ribbon menu under Apps.

Bulk Edit supports updating of all project level Enterprise Custom Fields for all projects that you can access.

Features Include

• Support for Project Online and On-premises deployments

• Selection of multiple Built-in and Enterprise Custom Fields for editing (only some built-in fields can be edited)

• New: Deferred updates, if you prefer you can now make your changes then select Apply to apply all changes at once

• Excel style drop filter / sorting from column menus.

• Cut and Paste of values

• Excel style fill-down editing of field values

• AJAX / JSOM Driven for fast viewing / updating of hundreds of projects at once

Note on On-Premises Installation

The Bulk Edit app fully supports on-premises Project Server 2013 and Project Server 2016 deployments, in order to install the app you may need to request from your SharePoint Administrator to install the SharePoint App Management Service, and / or request that this app be approved for installation by your administrator.

Reference- https://store.office.com/en-us/app.aspx?assetid=WA104148561&rs=en-US&ui=en-US&ad=US&appredirect=false

Details

Provider: Nearbaseline Solutions Pty Ltd
Version: 1.2.0.15
Released: 11/1/2013
Languages:

English

This add-in requires one of the following applications:

• SharePoint 2013 or later
• SharePoint Online

Project Online- Bulk Calc and Publish app - free on Office store

Bulk Calc and Publish

Free:
https://store.office.com/en-us/app.aspx?assetid=WA104380657&rs=en-US&ui=en-US&ad=US&appredirect=false

This helpful Project Online add-in allows for more efficiency by automatically bulk calculating and publishing your projects. This is especially helpful with calculated fields that use the current date “Now()” function or any other fields that require calculations.

Using this add-in allows you have the power to create a schedule, change the frequency and avoid the manual steps of recalculating and/or publishing your projects.

Here are some reasons our clients are using this add-in:

• Automatically publish all or a subset of your projects within Project Online. If you simply want all your projects published weekly or daily - you can now easily do that. Think about that big Senior Management meeting that you need all project data updated and published - well here you go, this add-in can do that for you.

• Set the Schedule to run when you want it to. With the Bulk Calc and Publish add-in you can automate and save time by avoiding the manual steps of forcing your project to recalculate and publish.

• Ensure the latest project data for Reporting. You can confirm that all projects have been published so your dashboards and reports reflect the latest project updates.

Details

Provider: PPM Works Inc.
Version: 1.2.0.0
Released: 12/2/2016
Languages:

English

This add-in requires one of the following applications:

• SharePoint 2016 or later
• SharePoint Online