I was trying to get the new workflow engine installed and configured with SharePoint 2013 but was encountering an error in the Service Bus configuration step.
Installation Instruction for Workflow Manager and SharePoint 2013 Workflow Configuration:
The full installation steps are provided here (in a video series): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn201724.aspx and here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193478
The instructions provided above are pretty detailed and helpful except that I kept getting this error while configuring workflow manager and there was not much to go with online.
The Error:
System.InvalidOperationException:
Program C:\Program Files\Windows Fabric\bin\Fabric\Fabric.Code.1.0\FabricDeployer.exe exited with error: Windows Fabric deployment failed.DeploymentValidator:
warning: The Fabric Data Collection Agent is disabled for this deployment.
None of the declared nodes is for the current machine.
Finally i looked at the hosts file on the Developer VM and noticed that I had an entry for 127.0.0.1. Since I was using FQDNs for my workflow configuration, I commented this line and that fixed the error.
so open the file: C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts in notepad or a text editor and comment out the line with entries to the local host (127.0.0.1)
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The Issue
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However, if you try routing failed messages on a Send Port that is bound to a Logical Port that has Delivery Notification enabled, you’ll get a Send Port failure with the following exception:
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- Add a Query String Filter Web Part, a Content Editor Web Part, and the web part for the list to a site page.
- Add code to the Content Editor Web Part with links that reload the page with the query string value.
- Configure the Query String Filter Web Part to send data to the list web part.
I’ll use a Customers list for this example.
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Background
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Scenario
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