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Vinod KumarVinod Kumar 

A workflow or approval field update caused an error when saving this record.

Hi all,

I am trying to update all records through scheduling job daily. Records are not updating and throwing this error mesaage "A workflow or approval field update caused an error when saving this record. Contact your administrator to resolve it". Why i am getting this error message? how to resolve this error?

 

 

Thanks,

Vinod.

Suresh RaghuramSuresh Raghuram

check with workflows that are firing on field updates , Is there any field related to your task and the workflow .

 

If this answers your question , make is as solution
Vinod KumarVinod Kumar

hi suree,

         I have one object with the name application. I am trying to update all the records of that object at that time it is throwing error message "A workflow or approval field update caused an error when saving this record. Contact your administrator to resolve it. Division undefined: []" . Why i am getting this error? Application object having some workflow rules with the field update action. I am trying to upadte xyz field with abc field. abc is a formul field it is returning value null. i am updating xyz field with null, i think that reason only i am getting this error. Is this correct or not, if it is correct how to resolve this issue. Please let me know.

 
Suresh RaghuramSuresh Raghuram

being it is a formula field i think u can not update it, And also check with profiles do you have access to all the fields you are using
Vigneshwaran LoganathanVigneshwaran Loganathan
Hi Vinod Kumar,

It may seems crazy but.. I have the same situaion now where you were.. Could you tell the solution if u remember.

Thanks.
Santosh Kumar Sriram_2310Santosh Kumar Sriram_2310
Hi,

I just ran into this issue and figured the solution for the same. 
So if you are using a formula field on the approval process's entry criteria and if the formula throws "#Error"  or NULL, then there are chances that you will hit upon the "Divisions Undefined Error".
So the solution is to either treat a value as blank as per this knowledge article - https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewSolution?id=000003605
or associate a error value which we can bucket and ignore.

Hope this helps!
salesforce snehalksalesforce snehalk
@Santosh Kumar Sriram_2310, thanks for providing this solution. It worked for me. I checked all Formula fields assoiated with the Object I am using in Test class. I changed default values of formula fields to "Treat blank fields as blanks" if previously they are set to "Treat blank fields as zeroes".
It was really troublesome issue and from the error its very difficult to figure out the root cause. So, again thank you so much for helping me out with it.