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A Workflow Status error is reported when a SharePoint 2010 workflow stops

Symptoms

As you create a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 workflow in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2013, one of the available workflow actions is Stop Workflow. The Stop Workflow action sets the status of the workflow instance to Completed and optionally logs a custom message to the Workflow History list.

When a workflow instance reaches the Stop Workflow action, an error that has a Correlation ID is reported to the Workflow Status page for that workflow instance.

Screenshot that shows SharePoint 2010 Stopped Workflow information page with an error. !

Cause

This behavior is by design. Although the workflow author has to specify the Stop Workflow action, the SharePoint 2010 workflow platform handles the Stop Workflow action as if an error has occurred, and then prints the corresponding diagnostic information.

Status

This behavior is harmless and doesn't affect the execution of the workflow. The reported error can be safely ignored.

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