Bug - Workflow in elevated permissions runs twice

Hi,

In general when a state machine worklfow runs branches twice it is because the state machine is not configured correctly.
Make sure that every branch of the state machine has a change state action or an end state machine action.

If you would like me to look over the workflow either post some screen shots or provide an export.

Hi Simon,

 

Yes, I have a change state in every branch, the workflow did run fine for months. The thing is that the workflow is looping even when it is waiting for a task to be completed.

I have also noticed that the workflow does not run twice if I do not cancel it (for my item, it's been 4 times since yesterday 6pm)

The issue is not a problem in the design of the workflow, but a problem with Workflow timer service I suppose (Nintex on-prem workflows are SharePoint 2010 workflows)

 

Some screenshots :

Thanks

It could be just the way the screen shot came out but to me it looks like this state machine is not designed correctly.
It looks like there is commit pending changes and UDA's after the change state/end state machine workflow actions which is not correct.
If you provide an export of the worklfow I can verify the design.

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the input, but it's not the screenshot that was incorrect (we can see that in the version history), neither the UDA (which has always worked).

I have found the issue, and it was a crazy one :

It was a "Set variable" inside the second action set "Delegation".
I used a query list, that returns the ID of the item, but I did not had the Row Limit set to 1. When I used the "set variable" action (set myVar with field1 from list1 when ID is equals myItemIDvar). Since the "query list" returns a collection with only one item, the "set variable" crashed, but without rasing an exception.
It took me hours of debug, and I still do not know why the whole elevated action set is re-run (I suppose a change of context), but this is definitely what is happenning.