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List workflow starts on another list

  • July 10, 2019
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Hi everybody, 

I have the following situation:

 - List A, where the list WF A ist defined

 - List B, where no WF is defined

I've noticed that some items where deleted from list B, I founded them in my Recycle bin, and knowing that I didn't do this manually, I searched for a WF which did that. It wasn't difficult to find it, but was puzzles me ist that the respective wf is defined on another list, List A. The start conditions for this WF are set only to manually and start from the item level. 

Like already said, on List B there is no wf defined, but when I add a new record in that list with a particulary status, it gets deleted by the Wf from list A (actually by a older version of this Wf).

 

Could someboday help me to figure out how this can happen?

 

Thanks a lot!

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    • michael_floydNintex Employee
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    • July 11, 2019

    I believe if a item is being deleted by the workflow there would be a Delete action in the workflow. If the current version of the workflow does not have any logic in the workflow that would perform the deletion of the item you can disable previous versions of the workflow by going to the list ribbon on the List A and clicking on Workflow Settings - Remove, Block, or Restore a Workflow. On the next screen you should see a list of the workflow versions and the option to check "No new Instances".

     

    Hope this helps.

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    • AlinaQ
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    • July 12, 2019

    Hi! Thanks for your answer.

    Indeed there is a Delete action in the wf. I changed the condition for deletion, but the record was still deleted, immediatly after creation, so that's why I realized that actually a previous version of the wf was deleting it.

    Luckly I was inspired to do exactly what you explained :).

     

    But I still don't know how this wf is triggered:

     - it is not defined on that list, but on a different list

    - the WF settings inlcud: start manually and on the item level, which makes me wonder how come the wf starts once the record is created.

     

    I can only think that maybe another WF triggers that respective WF. But on the list where the record is created there is no WF defined.

     

    Thanks,

    Alina

     

    Suprisingly, 

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