K2 Workflow Deployment Error

Date: 10-12-2014 Wednesday

Entry1: This entry is regarding error, that I am getting when creating user task event with notification email. If notification email is not not selected this error doesn't occur. Screen shots and error messages are provided below.

Error Message:

Notification Service: Task Error: System.Exception: System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing.

Server stack trace:

at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowWithoutLineInfo(String res)

at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()

at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)

at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)

at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)

at SourceCode.Categories.Client.CategoryServer.RefreshCategoryManager(CategoryManager categoryManager, Boolean getCategoryData)

at SourceCode.EventBus.EventAdmin.Admin.addEventToCategory(String eventID, String eventName, String categoryConnectionString, Int32 worklistNotificationCategoryID)

at SourceCode.EventBus.EventAdmin.Admin.UpdateCustomEventWithMappings(String connection, CustomEvent customEvent, String user)

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Message.Dispatch(Object target)

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)

Exception rethrown at [0]:

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)

at SourceCode.EventBus.EventAdmin.Admin.UpdateCustomEventWithMappings(String connection, CustomEvent customEvent, String user)

at SourceCode.EventBus.Server.ClientServerImplimentation.UpdateCustomEventForNotification(CustomEvent customEvent, String userName)

at SourceCode.EventBus.Server.ClientServerImplimentation.AddWorklistItemNotification(WorklistItemIdentifier worklistItemIdentifier, String eventData, PolicyMapping policyMapping, Boolean externalOwned)

at SourceCode.EventBus.Server.ClientServerImplimentation.AddWorklistItemNotification(WorklistItemIdentifier worklistItemIdentifier, String eventData, PolicyMapping policyMapping, Boolean externalOwned)

at SourceCode.EventBus.Server.ClientServerImplimentation.UpdateWorklistItemNotification(List`1 worklistItemIdentifiers)

The "SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.NotificationService.NotificationTask" task failed unexpectedly.

System.Exception: System.Exception: System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing.

Server stack trace:

at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowWithoutLineInfo(String res)

at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()

at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)

at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)

at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)

at SourceCode.Categories.Client.CategoryServer.RefreshCategoryManager(CategoryManager categoryManager, Boolean getCategoryData)

at SourceCode.EventBus.EventAdmin.Admin.addEventToCategory(String eventID, String eventName, String categoryConnectionString, Int32 worklistNotificationCategoryID)

at SourceCode.EventBus.EventAdmin.Admin.UpdateCustomEventWithMappings(String connection, CustomEvent customEvent, String user)

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Message.Dispatch(Object target)

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)

Exception rethrown at [0]:

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)

at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)

at SourceCode.EventBus.EventAdmin.Admin.UpdateCustomEventWithMappings(String connection, CustomEvent customEvent, String user)

at SourceCode.EventBus.Server.ClientServerImplimentation.UpdateCustomEventForNotification(CustomEvent customEvent, String userName)

at SourceCode.EventBus.Server.ClientServerImplimentation.AddWorklistItemNotification(WorklistItemIdentifier worklistItemIdentifier, String eventData, PolicyMapping policyMapping, Boolean externalOwned)

at SourceCode.EventBus.Server.ClientServerImplimentation.AddWorklistItemNotification(WorklistItemIdentifier worklistItemIdentifier, String eventData, PolicyMapping policyMapping, Boolean externalOwned)

at SourceCode.EventBus.Server.ClientServerImplimentation.UpdateWorklistItemNotification(List`1 worklistItemIdentifiers)

at SourceCode.Hosting.Client.BaseAPI.BaseAPIConnection.RemoteCall(String TypeName, String MethodName, Object[] Parameters, Boolean[] NullList, MarshalMessageType CallType)

at SourceCode.Hosting.Client.BaseAPI.BaseAPI.RemoteCall(String TypeName, String MethodName, Object[] Parameters, Boolean[] NullList, MarshalMessageType CallType)

at SourceCode.EventBus.ClientAPI.Notification.UpdateWorklistItemNotification(List`1 worklistItemIdentifiers)

at SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.NotificationService.Common.Publish()

at SourceCode.DeploymentTasks.NotificationService.NotificationTask.Execute()

at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()

at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.<ExecuteInstantiatedTask>d__20.MoveNext()

Resolution:

http://community.k2.com/t5/K2-blackpearl/Deploy-error-Root-element-is-missing/td-p/61425