This is the kind of repeating/common issue asked in MSDN Forum : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointworkflow/thread/7d0166b7-6226-46bb-86cf-105647c79c47
The workflow which is created by SharePoint designer doesn’t send email to the members of SharePoint Group.
This is known issue and Designer Team gave the workaround to solve this problem.
- On SharePoint site, click Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Modify All Site Settings.
- Under Users and Permissions heading, click People and groups.
- Select appropriate group(s), click Settings -> Group Settings.
- Under Group Settings area, select everyone for who can view the membership of the group, click OK.
My group is already set to everyone view and it is still not getting emails that SPD sends it.
is it working for users?
hi i did the same and its not sending to groups, only users what could be wrong?
I had the same problem, and this worked for me:
http://www.sharepointdev.net/sharepoint–workflow/send-email-to-group-not-working-47712.shtml
Finally found the correct solution. Sending emails to individuals, whether hard-coded or passed by value works fine.
The Sharepoint groups however, need to be specifically added READ permission to the item/list to “allow” SPD to properly send the email.
For example, in my workflow I validate a number of things before I actually start the workflow. If these things don’t validate properly, I want to email a “WF Support” Sharepoint group. Since that group has nothing to do per se with the workflow, I must add a Grant READ permissions task just before sending the email.
Hope this helps.
Yes
The solution is to give the SharePoint group ‘Read’ permission on the list
Thank you
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I agree with Ahmed. Assigning read permission to the SP group for the list on which the workflow was running solved that issue. But “NT Authority/Authenticated Users” had already been assigned Contribute rights for the list. It is weird that this does not help that issue.