Reason: The user who attempted to complete the task is not the user to whom the task is assigned
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03-10-2020 - |
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I am using the OOB workflow "Approval - SharePoint 2010". I assigned a user, say UserA, to approve a file.
A task is created and the assignee is UserA. I login as UserB and try to approval the task. After I press "approve" I get an error saying I am not the assignee. In the workflow history UserB is rejected and logged the reason. (Reason: The user who attempted to complete the task is not the user to whom the task is assigned.)
It is working as expected. However, when I login with the site owner and site collection admin, I am able to approve the task without error. Both accounts are not the task assignee.
May I know what's the logic behind? Is it depends on some permission level?
Solution
Site Owners and Site Collection Administrators are supposed to do administrative tasks in a Site Collection. That's why one should be careful making users owners or SC admins. It's important that owners have the necessary knowledge of SharePoint before they obtain an owner role. Especially since they have the permission to do administrative work and could, if they don't have knowledge, destroy (and delete) of the Site Collection.
