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Removing workflow from system.

andrisr — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:33:41 GMT

Hi!In a fresh Alfresco 3.2r instance I added an advanced workflow (which is used in another instance successfully).Started up Alfresco and verified, that wokflow is available after selecting "Start Advanced Workflow" (there were two workflows, one of which was mine).Without starting it, I shut down

Re: Removing workflow from system.

mrogers — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:33:51 GMT

How did you "remove the workflow"? It will not be sufficient to just delete the workflow definition files.

Re: Removing workflow from system.

andrisr — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:41:59 GMT

How did you "remove the workflow"? It will not be sufficient to just delete the workflow definition files.

Yes, all I did was removing workflow definition files.
What else would be necessary?
Is there something I have to remove from database?

Workflow administration console gives the same exception.

Re: Removing workflow from system.

hyperation — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:37:46 GMT

You could start deleting namespace entries in the database. But that's not recommended.

Thanks
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Re: Removing workflow from system.

khinendra — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:12:58 GMT

For removing workflow from the alfresco u need to login with "admin" credential
then open page

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/admin/workflow-console.jsp

now u can see all the workflow by executing command

show definitions all

and remove workflow by executing command

undeploy definition <workflow definition name>

try it

Re: Removing workflow from system.

himanshuk4u — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:26:40 GMT

Hi all

show definitions all – showing syntax error in workflow console

can you pls suggest to remove it manually
I m using alfresco 4.2 community