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Workflow issue with timeline

Hi,

I am having an issue with the AEM 6.1 out of the box workflows.

When I attempt to have a participant step after a simple process step I get a null pointer exception (error log is attached in txt file).

Here is the very simple workflow:

[img]Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 10.59.47.png[/img]

Here is what I expected from it:

[img]Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 11.04.25.png[/img]

but this is what I get:

[img]Screen Shot 2015-09-23 at 11.06.08.png[/img]

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Best answer by smacdonald2008

Looks like a permission issue - you need to make sure that the groups have the required permissions to perform the tasks in this workflow.

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Looks like a permission issue - you need to make sure that the groups have the required permissions to perform the tasks in this workflow.

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Even I faced this issue sometime before if we assign it to non-admin groups. I couldnt debug further there !

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Turns out, giving read access to the folder containing the admin user has fixed this particular problem.

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That makes sense, what permissions would it need though?

As far as groups go, they have workflow-users and content-authors.

I ran a test, adding admin rights to the user seems to make it work.

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Right, I have narrowed it down. Basically adding Read access to home fixes it.

It looks like in order to look up elements in the timeline the users will need access to the display name (firstname and or lastname).

Thanks for the help guys

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