SharePoint 2013 Workflow Cancels Automatically

SharePoint 2013 workflows created with SP Designer would cancel automatically with an internal status of ‘Canceled’ while SharePoint 2010 workflows worked just as expected.


This account needs to have at least contribute permissions to the Workflow History list (a hidden list that can be accessed through SP Designer). So here’s my solution:

• Navigate to the site that the workflow is on in SharePoint 2013 Designer.
• Go to All Files -> Lists
• Right click on Workflow History
• Select Properties
• Click on Permissions for this list under the ‘Customization’ section (This should open up the edit permissions page in the browser)
• Break inheritance on this list by selecting Stop Inheriting Permissions in the new opened browser window
• Use the check box next to the appropriate group (probably the visitors group) to select the group that needs updated permissions
• Select Edit User Permissions
• Grant the group ‘Contribute’ permissions
• Select OK