I am designing a workflow for an absence request at my company. The problem is that whenever I to test the workflow, I don't know if it is SD or MOSS, but it creates a new instance of the workflow. It looks like this:
Workflow Name (click to change settings)—————–Workflows in Progress
Review Absence—————————————————————0
Review Absence (Previous Version:6/23/2009 10:39:45 AM)———0
Common sense told me, "all right let's erase both or multiple instances of the workflow and let SharepointDesigner create a new instance of the Absence request workflow"…. FAIL!
I modified values in the workflow so I can know it was a new generated workflow, but when I create a new request those variables do not update.
Any ideas?
Thank You very much! =)
Best Answer
Everytime you click Finish and save your workflow using SharePoint Designer, it creates a new Instance of it attached to the list. I think the reason it does this, is in case you have workflows using the now "old" version that are currently running.
What I usually do is clean up the older workflows by removing any with the "(Previous version: ...)". This leaves only the latest workflow instance on your list. I don't think you want to remove the 1st entry, "Review Absence", because that is the one you just saved!