Missing Workflows in Sharepoint.

Question

hi i have been trying to create an approval workflow for a calendar i have on my sharepoint site for my company. i have gone through many forums and tried just about everything to fix it. i believe i have all the correct settings for the workflows to appear correctly, but they still don't. all i see are these workflows.

  

here is what i have checked under site collection features:

further information:

i believe that i am using the sharepoint online that comes with office 365. i have all permissions possible for the sharepoint site so it isn't a permission issue.

any help is appreciated thanks.

Answer 1

I ended up just contacting the support people through my office 365 platform. Best decision I've made, they were very helpful and got things working within an hour.

Answer 2

Ryan Could you please see the post I created below? I meant for it to be a comment to your post but I think it submitted as an answer.

Answer 3

hi i have been trying to create an approval workflow for a calendar i have on my sharepoint site for my company. i have gone through many forums and tried just about everything to fix it. i believe i have all the correct settings for the workflows to appear correctly, but they still don't. all i see are these workflows.

  

here is what i have checked under site collection features:


further information:

i believe that i am using the sharepoint online that comes with office 365. i have all permissions possible for the sharepoint site so it isn't a permission issue.

i even received help with the above information which i will provide:

"hi alec,

you can follow the steps below to activate the approval workflow feature.

1. download the spfeaturecommander.zip in the attachment and extract it to your local pc. (e.g. c:\downloads\spfeaturecommander)
2. search powershell and run as administrator.
3. input the commands:

   c:\downloads\spfeaturecommander\spfeaturecommander.ps1

4. enter the information as below and press add feature:

    site url -> your site collection url where you want to enable approval workflow

    user name -> admin account (require accessibility to sharepoint admin center and full control/owner permission to the site collection)

    password -> admin account password

    feature guid -> 0af5989a-3aea-4519-8ab0-85d91abe39ff (i.e., workflows feature)

    scope -> site

    select force option


5. check the last command output if it shows as below:


if the approval workflow is still not missing, please let us know.

regards,

ryan"

after i did this i received the following error after step 4: !\[\](http://fud.community.services.support.microsoft.com/Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=5b2da3d6-eccb-42e6-9118-ec2b5a5a7e1c) 

and have not been able to get any other help. 

any help is appreciated thanks.

Answer 4

@ryan lv msft support

that still did not work. i got through step 4 but when clicking add feature this error appeared.


Answer 5

hi alec,

you can follow the steps below to activate the approval workflow feature.

1. download the spfeaturecommander.zip in the attachment and extract it to your local pc. (e.g. c:\downloads\spfeaturecommander)
2. search powershell and run as administrator.
3. input the commands:

    c:\downloads\spfeaturecommander\spfeaturecommander.ps1

4. enter the information as below and press add feature:

    site url -> your site collection url where you want to enable approval workflow

    user name -> admin account (require accessibility to sharepoint admin center and full control/owner permission to the site collection)

    password -> admin account password

    feature guid -> 0af5989a-3aea-4519-8ab0-85d91abe39ff (i.e., workflows feature)

    scope -> site

    select force option


5. check the last command output if it shows as below:


if the approval workflow is still not missing, please let us know.

regards,

ryan