This is handy. SharePoint helpfully populates the meta data with the GUID of the list and the ID of the item a WF instance is associated with. These are stored in "ows_WorkflowListId" and "ows_WorkflowItemId" fields on the task list item. An example of using this is from an InfoPath form in the form …

The reason the Office Sharepoint Server Workflow Task is not visible is because it is assigned to a special group named "_Hidden" which precludes it from being displayed in the site collection content type view. As it turns out content types are exposed and manipulable through the Sharepoint OM using the …

We have a workflow that is a mix of simple tasks and MOSS infopath forms server workflow tasks. To that end we remove the TaskListContentTypeId from workflow.xml and use the CreateTaskWithContentType shape to manually set the content type on appropriate tasks. This works fine until we come to deploy on a fresh …