CRM 4: Waiting workflows

In CRM 4 workflows can have the status waiting when an they are waiting for an event such as a timer or they will also have this status if an error has occured. To find out which take the following steps.

• In the web client goto the 'System jobs' in the settings area
• Click "Advanced find"
• Click "Edit Columns"
• Click "Add Columns"
• Select the columns "Error Code" and "Message"
• Click "OK" twice
• Click "Find" this will execute the query and bring up the workflows which have executed. If the workflow ran into an error the error code and message column will contain details. 
  Note that in case of an exception the message is the same as that logged in the trace files (if enabled)

You can save this query, this will make it available in the View list.

You can find them meaning of the error codes on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb930493.aspx.