Reassign a workflow task - Task update was not accepted. To edit a task associated with a workflow task process, you must be the person to whom the task is currently assigned.
Hi guys, Recently one of my client has faced this issue while reassigning a task of default Approval workflow. Here is the screen shot: SharePoint by default only allows the assignee to re-assign the task. If you try to re-assign a task that is not assigned to you, you get the following message: Task update was not accepted. To edit a task associated with a workflow task process, you must be the person to whom the task is currently assigned. Solution To overwrite this behaviour: Open SharePoint Designer Open the Workflow you wish to modify. On the step where you start the workflow task ‘Start <workflow task name> process on Current Item with…’, right click on the task name. Select Properties and look for the attribute TaskProcessOwner . Click on the ‘ … ‘ button to select a group or specific user. You may wish to create a SharePoint group specifically for this purpose. All members of this group will have permissions to re-assign tasks that are assigned t...