What happens if the person that created/updated the WF last is leaving the company (eg their AD credentials will be disabled) and an action is set to run as WF owner? Will that action fail?
Run as workflow owner
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@brenroad .... they will fail if the account is an orphan user in SharePoint. As a best practice, it's better to publish workflows with a service account.
+23- Nintex Partner
This used to be the case but I am pretty sure the behavior has changed as of SharePoint 2019 where the workflow will still run. I could be wrong but I am sure I saw this issue and tested it and found the workflow still ran. Anyway, good practice to use a service account to publish workflows.
+3I have one trick for this case.
Simply call Web service to Start WF (as new wf) and after it will continue under the system account.
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