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.

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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:

  1. Open SharePoint Designer

  2. Open the Workflow you wish to modify.

  3. On the step where you start the workflow task ‘Start <workflow task name> process on Current Item with…’, right click on the task name.

  4. Select Properties and look for the attribute TaskProcessOwner.

  5. Click on the ‘…‘ button to select a group or specific user.

  6. 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 to other people.




Hope this post help you to fix this error.

Happy SharePointing.

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