I m using tridion 2013 sp1 i m getting this error while finishing an automatic activity from a decision activity here is my code var session = new Session(); WorkItem m_WorkItem = session.GetObject(workitemid) as WorkItem; ActivityInstance currentactivity = m_WorkItem.Activity as ActivityInstance; IEnumerable<ActivityDefinition> ieActivities = currentactivity.ActivityDefinition.ProcessDefinition.ActivityDefinitions; ActivityDefinition activityInstance = ieActivities.ToList().Where(c => c.Title == "Publish EN to Testing and Staging").First(); DecisionActivityFinish finish = new DecisionActivityFinish(activityInstance, session.User, "Publish EN to Testing and Staging", session); currentactivity.Finish(finish); Error in event viewer is like this Unable to get activity instance from work item. caused by: WorkItem.ActivityInstance and description: <?xml version="1.0"?> <tcm:Error xmlns:tcm="http://www.tridion.com/ContentManager/5.0" ErrorCode="D" Category="18" Source="Kernel" Severity="1"><tcm:Line Cause="false" MessageID="16138"><![CDATA[Unable to get ActivityInstance of Workflow work item (tcm:3-125-131200).]]><tcm:Token>RESID_4485</tcm:Token><tcm:Token>ActivityInstance</tcm:Token><tcm:Token>RESID_15212</tcm:Token><tcm:Token>tcm:3-125-131200</tcm:Token></tcm:Line><tcm:Line ErrorCode="D" Cause="true"><![CDATA[Type mismatch]]></tcm:Line><tcm:Details><tcm:CallStack><tcm:Location>WorkItem.ActivityInstance</tcm:Location><tcm:Location>WorkItem.ActivityInstance</tcm:Location></tcm:CallStack></tcm:Details></tcm:Error>