About the sharepoint LogToHistoryListActivity.Duration.

Question

Does anybody know what the LogToHistoryListActivity.Duration does? I see some people set it to zero and some people keep the default negative value. I didn't find any useful information on MSDN.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Really not sure about it, but this tutorial states an interesting fact:

As we want to allow our list administrator to view the history of this workflow, we will now add a LogToHistoryListActivity. This will keep a record of the completion of the task.

As we will see later, SharePoint allows you to generate duration reports for workflows. Here, the duration of the workflow is calculated by subtracting the start time from the time of task completion.

and then

Additionally, we can open up the Activity Duration workflow in Excel. The data collected here was made possible by the LogToHistoryListActivity we created earlier.