merill.net » bulk insert http://merill.net my utmost for His highest, my best for His glory Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:31:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Workflow does not start automatically when bulk inserting items http://merill.net/2010/03/workflow-does-not-start-automatically-when-bulk-inserting-items/ http://merill.net/2010/03/workflow-does-not-start-automatically-when-bulk-inserting-items/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:18:27 +0000 Merill Fernando http://merill.net/2010/03/workflow-does-not-start-automatically-when-bulk-inserting-items/ This had me tripped for a while. I was bulk inserting items (~800) to a list which had event receivers as well as a workflow attached.

The problem was that the workflow was not being triggered. Or if it did it just hung at In Progress.

After poking around for more than an hour I discovered that if I inserted a single item it worked. So to fix the issue I added a ten second sleep (Thread.Sleep) between the inserts and the workflows are triggering away happily.

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