topic How to remove a completed workflow in Alfresco Archive

How to remove a completed workflow

dranakan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:24:11 GMT

Hello,I use this to delete some workflows :// Delete workflow workflowService.deleteWorkflow(workflowId);‍‍All is working if the workflow is not completed. I get an error if I try to remove a completed workflow… 2012-02-24 14:58:31,336 ERROR [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntime] [http-8080-1

Re: How to remove a completed workflow

jpotts — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:10:23 GMT

Once the workflow is complete there is nothing to delete. That's why the error message is telling you that it cannot delete a workflow instance that does not exist.

Jeff

Re: How to remove a completed workflow

dranakan — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:49:07 GMT

Thank you Jeff,

I hope you have given a lot of Alfresco T-Shirt during theses months:-)

Once the workflow is complete there is nothing to delete. That's why the error message is telling you that it cannot delete a workflow instance that does not exist.‍

I can still access the workflow when it's ended (with the id : activiti$12345). But in some cases, I would like to remove them.
How can I delete a completed workflow ? Alfresco forbidden it ?

Thank you.

Re: How to remove a completed workflow

jpotts — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:26:35 GMT

I see what you mean. I think this might be a bug. It is also strange that you can get a handle to the completed workflow but if you go into the workflow console and do a "show workflows all" the workflow will not show up.

I've created a Jira for this:
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-13113

Jeff

Re: How to remove a completed workflow

dranakan — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:46:21 GMT

Thank you. I follow on JIRA…