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12-22-2025 12:00 PM
In our DEV system, there are a handful of old workflows (Workflow Editor, NOT Flow Designer) I have checked out for various reasons. Sometimes it is because you need to check it out to investigate it and see a "friendlier, more complete view of the details of each action. Other times, it may be because I was just testing something. In any event, I usually delete the recent "checked out" version, so it reverts back to the most recent published version before I do any new development work on that workflow.
I am experiencing something weird. I had about 10 checked out workflows (all in the Global). I opened them up, one-by-one, went to the Context Menu (hamburger) and clicked on "Delete" to delete the checked out version. I was able to do this on 7 of them. But the other 3, which still show as "checked out by me", do not give me an option to Delete them when I go to the Context Menu.
Why would that be? I am not sure why these are behaving differently. I want to delete the current check out versions so I can start making new changes (and not pick up anything else I may have been messing around with/testing before).
Thanks
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12-22-2025 12:58 PM
Hi,
There was a comment in the other thread that said the same thing...they could delete some but not all of them.
As far as deleting them, I don't think you can pick it based on date. I would check Executing Activities or Active Contexts to make sure there is nothing currently active / tied to the sys_id of what you want to delete before you delete it and I would export it to XML just in case you need it again. I would look to stay with the one that won't damage any open tickets since each workflow creates an instance tied to a record. Or run it from a fix script so you can always rollback from the delete.
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12-23-2025 05:42 AM
Updating the bad version to unpublished did not allow me to manually delete the checked out version (still no "Delete" option in Context Menu). So I then tried actually deleting it using a Fix Script. Still no luck. So then I also deleted the checked out version using a Fix Script, and that finally worked!
So I had to use the Fix Script to:
- delete the duplicate "published" version that was not being used
- delete the checked out version
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12-23-2025 06:17 AM
Nice job! Glad to hear that you got it worked out.
