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I am currently working on a Workflow for National Pen. The workflow saves an Infopath document to a SharePoint library. However, if a user has the document currently open, the workflow errors out with an exception that the document is locked. I need to be able to catch the exception and retry the event until it succeeds.

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I have the same problem. Any suggestions for this anyone?

Alright, did a little bit of investigating. You can catch the exception and run the process again if you wish, I ended up modifying my sharepoint action with the following code to retry to upload the document until it's either uploaded or 10minutes has passed.

' Call Web Service to Upload Document
 ' Start Loop to run a delayed response to upload '
 Dim isError As Boolean = True
 Dim i As Integer = 0
 While (i < 10) 
  If Not SpsList.UploadDocument(Server, Site, Folder, _ 
       File, oByte, True , ErrorMessage) Then
   ' Error Occurred in UploadDocument - Set to delay for 1 minute and try again
   Threading.Thread.Sleep(60000)
   i = i + 1
  Else
   isError = False
   'break out of loop
   i = 10
  End If
 End While

 'check if document upload succeeded, throw error if it didnt.
 If (isError) Then
  Throw New System.Exception(ErrorMessage)
 End If

Hope this helps.
Matt

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