MS CRM 2011 Custom workflow log

Question

Is it possible to write a message in the details message of a system job? I only know the way to get the ITracingService and make some traces. But these tracing lines will only be shown if my custom workflow throw an exception.

Answer 1

As far as I know; no, I experimented with this in the past, going so far as to write update calls to the system job field but I was prevented by CRM if I remember correctly.

The second best option is to create a 'log' entity which you write messages to.