View workflow reports
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides individual and aggregate workflow reports to enable you to assess the efficiency of your workflows and related business processes. You can use these reports to locate problems with processes or to determine whether a group or individual is meeting performance targets for a particular business process.
View site collection workflow reports
You can display a list of available workflows for the site collection, their status (active or inactive), how many times these workflows have been associated, and how many instances of each active workflow are running.
Important
You must be a member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group to perform this procedure.
To view site collection workflow reports
From Central Administration, on the Site Actions menu, click Site Settings.
On the Site Settings page, in the Galleries section, click Workflows to display the Site Collection Workflows report.
View individual workflow reports
Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides two predefined Microsoft Office Excel reports that provide aggregate analysis of workflow history for each workflow instance: the Activity Duration Report and the Cancellation and Error Report. The Activity Duration Report provides data for how long each activity within a workflow takes to complete as well as how long it takes for the all tasks in the workflow to complete. The Cancellation and Error Report shows which workflows have been cancelled or encountered errors before completion.
Important
You must be a user with Edit Item permissions to perform this procedure.
Note
If you are using custom workflows, the appropriate parameters must be specified in the workflow template in order to generate the data for these reports. For more information, see Developing Workflow Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120912&clcid=0x409).
To view individual workflow reports
Navigate to the list or document library that contains the workflow for which you want to view reports.
Point to the item or document that is involved in the workflow, click the arrow that appears, and then click Workflows.
On the Workflows page, in the Running Workflows section, click the name of the workflow for which you want status.
On the Workflows Status page, in the Workflow History section, click View workflow reports.
On the View Workflow Reports page, locate the workflow for which you want to view the reports, and do either of the following:
To view information about how long it is taking for each activity within a workflow to be completed, as well as how long it takes each instance of the workflow to be completed, click Activity Duration Report.
To view information about which workflows were canceled or encountered errors before completion, click Cancellation and Error Report.
Note
The reports are listed in alphabetical order by workflow name.