Change Request - Undoing customizations and returning to OOB. Flow Activation Problem
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02-04-2026 05:40 AM
One of the OOB flows, CHANGE - STANDARD - PROPOSAL, is inactive and I do not see a way to make it active. For testing, I copied it and was able to activate the copy... but that will not update properly with upgrades. How do I fix this?
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02-04-2026 05:50 AM
So you deactivated OOTB flow and are unable to activate it again?
If yes then this is expected behavior
Check this KB which talks about same. You need to raise case with ServiceNow
Activating OOB flow after Deactivating is not possible.
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Ankur
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02-04-2026 06:00 AM
No, we never deactivated it. Our CM was so customized, we never triggered any OOB flows and just the old workflow.
So it was never deactivated... and yet there it is deactivated. We have never used the standard change at all, let alone the standard change proposal process.
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02-04-2026 07:10 PM
I didn't get your actual question
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02-04-2026 05:58 AM
Hi @jlaps
I am experiencing the same behaviour.There is no way to activate it again,
https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1279744
Regards,
Poonkodi
