Question

I have a dev environment with VS2010 and SP2010 installed in and a production environment running SP2010. I have created a state machine workflow in VS2010 and deployed to my dev environment for testing. Now that I have things working the way I want I need to deploy the workflow into my production environment.

In VS2010 I have selected “Package” and taken the resulting .wsp file and attempted to deploy them on my production site by going to Site Settings -> Solutions and uploading. I have also activated the solution within the solution gallery and ensured that it is also activated in “Site collection features”. However, the workflow does not show up in Site Settings -> Workflows and I can’t seem to out what to do. I have also tried deploying the .wsp through stsadm addsolution.

What am I missing when deploying a custom built workflow packaged as a wsp?

Answer 1

Your first method of deploying solution by uploading it to Site Settings -> Solutions applies to only sandboxed solutions. Are you sure yours is a sandboxed solution ?

The second method which you tried is a global method of deployment through stsadm.

I would suggest, start from scratch i.e. clean up your local Solutions gallery. and use stsadm operations addsolution, deploysolution and activatefeature to deploy this workfow.

Note that deploysolution and activatefeature can also be done via UI.