Powershell Script to output all types of workflows in a Farm

Question

I have run multiple scripts found on other technet articles to locate all 2010, 2013 & SharePoint designer workflows. The scripts run ok and output results.

The problem is:

I am looking at multiple workflows in my sites that are not appearing on any of the scripts output I have tried which Is leading me to think it is not outputting all of the workflows correctly. Why would this be happening? and does anyone have an uber script that will pull everything across all of the technologies with SharePoint workflows. Thanks

Answer 1

Try with the below scripts this should give you the accurate results for 2010 & 2013 workflows. If you miss any might be default reusable workflows which you can ignore them.

#Get SP 2010 Workflows
if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)  
  {  

      Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"  
  }  

  $results = @()  
  $siteColl =  "http://sp/sites/dev"  

  $site = Get-SPSite -Identity $siteColl -Limit All  
  try  
  {   
      foreach ($myWeb in $site.AllWebs)  
      {  
          Write-Host "Looking in Web: " $myWeb.Url -ForegroundColor Red  
          foreach($list in $myWeb.Lists)  
          {  
              if ($list.WorkflowAssociations)  
              {  
                  Write-Host $list.Title -ForegroundColor Blue  
                  foreach ($wflowAssociation in $list.WorkflowAssociations)  
                  {  
                      $RowDetails =  @{            
                        "List Name"         = $wflowAssociation.ParentList.Title  
                        "Workflow Name"     = $wflowAssociation.InternalName  
                        "Running Instances" = $wflowAssociation.RunningInstances  
                        "Created On"        = $wflowAssociation.Created  
                        "Modified On"       = $wflowAssociation.Modified  
                        "Parent Web"        = $wflowAssociation.ParentWeb  
                        "Task List"         = $wflowAssociation.TaskListTitle  
                        "History List"      = $wflowAssociation.HistoryListTitle                   
                      }  

                      $results += New-Object PSObject -Property $RowDetails  
                  }            
              }  

          }  
      }  

      $myFileName = [Environment]::GetFolderPath("Desktop") + "\workflowList.csv"  
      $results | Select-Object "List Name", "Workflow Name", "Running Instances", "Created On","Modified On","Parent Web", "Task List","History List"    | export-csv -Path $myFileName -NoTypeInformation  

  }  

  catch   
  {   
      $e = $_.Exception   
      $line = $_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber   
      $msg = $e.Message   
      Write-Host –ForegroundColor Red "Caught Exception: $e at $line"   
      Write-Host $msg   
      Write-Host "Something went wrong"  
  }   

  Write-Host " === === === === === Completed! === === === === === === == " 

For SP 2013 workflows use the below script:

# Get SP 2013 workflows

 if ((Get-PSSnapin 'Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) {
   Add-PSSnapin 'Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell'
 }
 CLS
 $spAssignment = Start-SPAssignment
 $outputFile = 'C:\Temp\2013Workflows.csv'
 $output = '';
 $wfResults = @();
 $i = 0;
 Write-Host 'Searching 2013 Workflows ....' -NoNewline;

  $siteColl =  "http://sp/sites/dev" 
  $site = Get-SPSite -Identity $siteColl -Limit All


     # get the collection of webs
     foreach($spWeb in $site.AllWebs) {
       $wfm = New-object Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.WorkflowServicesManager($spWeb)
       $wfsService = $wfm.GetWorkflowSubscriptionService()
       foreach ($spList in $spWeb.Lists) {
         $subscriptions = $wfsService.EnumerateSubscriptionsByList($spList.ID)
         foreach ($subscription in $subscriptions) {
           #$subscriptions.name
           #$subscriptions.PropertyDefinitions#._UIVersionString #_IsCurrentVersion
           $i++
           #excluding multiple version of the same workflow
           if (($spWeb.Url + $spList.Title + $subscriptions.Name) -ne $output) {
             $output = $spWeb.Url + $spList.Title + $subscription.Name    
             $wfID = $subscription.PropertyDefinitions["SharePointWorkflowContext.ActivationProperties.WebId"]        
             $wfResult = New-Object PSObject;
             $wfResult | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name 'URL' -value ($spWeb.URL);
             $wfResult | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name 'ListName' -value ($spList.Title);
             $wfResult | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name 'wfName' -value ($subscription.Name);
             $wfResult | Add-Member -type NoteProperty -name 'wfID' -value ($wfID);
             $wfResults += $wfResult;
           }
           if ($i -eq 10) {Write-Host '.' -NoNewline; $i = 0;}
         }
       }


 }
 $wfResults | Export-CSV $outputFile -Force -NoTypeInformation
 Write-Host
 Write-Host 'Script Completed'
 Stop-SPAssignment $spAssignment  

Thanks & Regards,

Answer 2

@ BenjaminLee-0319

1.You could try to execute the following script on the SharePoint server. This should list info on all the working workflow on the server.

 #Load SharePoint snap-in   
 Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell   
 #Fetches webapplications in the farm   
 $WebApplications = Get-SPWebApplication -IncludeCentralAdministration       
 foreach($WebApplication in $WebApplications){   
      #Fetches site collections list within sharepoint webapplication   
      Write-Output ""   
      Write-host "Working on web application $($WebApplication.Url)" -ForegroundColor Green  
      $Sites = Get-SPSite -WebApplication $WebApplication -Limit All       
      foreach($Site in $Sites)  
      {        
          #Fetches information for each  site - old code   
          $site = Get-SPSite($Site.Url);  
          $site.AllWebs | foreach { $_.Lists | foreach { $_.WorkflowAssociations | foreach {   
              write-host "Site:" $_.ParentWeb.Url ", List:" $_.ParentList.Title ", Workflow:" $_.Name  
              Write-Output "=========="   
    } } }  
          $Site.Dispose()   
      }   
  }      

2.The below PowerShell script is to list all workflows from SharePoint 2013/2016 site collection using PowerShell

if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null)    
{    
    Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"    
}    
$site = Get-SPSite("http://sp/sites/echo");  
$site.AllWebs | foreach { $_.Lists | foreach { $_.WorkflowAssociations | foreach {  
write-host "Site:" $_.ParentWeb.Url ", List:" $_.ParentList.Title ", Workflow:" $_.Name -ForegroundColor Cyan   
} } }  

Thanks,
Echo Du

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Answer 3

There are 3 types of workflow associations that can happen on SharePoint: 1. List associated workflows 2. Site associated workflows 3. Content type associated workflows.

All the scripts above work just fine for list associated workflows. For Site's and Content type associated workflows, script will differ.
For site associated workflows, something like this will show the results:
foreach($site in $wa.sites)
{
foreach($web in $site.AllWebs)
{
$workflows = $web.WorkflowAssociations
foreach($wf in $workflows)
{
if($wf.Name -notlike "Previous Version")
{
$web.url + "|" + " |" + $wf.Name >> Workflow-Enabled-Sites.txt
}
}
}
}

For Content type associated workflows:

I'm looking forward for an answer on this.