Catalog tasks are created by 'system' instead of the requestor

[Thi Dinh Nguyen]

Hello all,

I have a workflow for a catalog item that calls another child workflow, which creates catalog tasks. And all the catalog tasks that are created by that child workflow have "system" as the "Created by" value instead of the requestor. Is there any way so that the catalog tasks are created by the requestor instead of the "system" user?

Thanks,

Thi

[Maik Skoddow]

Hi @Thi Dinh Nguyen 

did you see my initial response to your question? I wrote:

"But there are some special Workflow activities like "Timer" which switch the context to the "system" user and all following activities will inherit that system user. This is as expected and cannot be changed."

Maik

[Thi Dinh Nguyen]

Thanks Maik, I removed the Timer activity and it seems to be working again. Sorry for missing your previous reply.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Thi Dinh Nguyen 

Since you have a delay in your workflow it's OOB behavior that created by will show as system since timer activity runs with that user

check this link

Opened By field is populated as system for Task created by a workflow 

If my response helped please mark it correct and close the thread so that it benefits future readers.