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Workflow Status Column not Showing in List

  • September 18, 2018
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I have inherited a list that had ~9 workflows. Many were not active. The only active wf for new items (#9) does not appear in the list. I have reduced the total workflows down to 6. How does I make this workflow status column appear for wf #9?

I have reviewed this post explaining why it happens but I do not want to alter the central admin settings. Additionally, I have seen a suggestion to go to List > Workflow Settings > Workflow Settings > Remove, Block, or Restore a Workflow and remove all iterations of the wf, rerun the workflow, and then it should appear. However, there are 600+ open items currently running the wf and I am hesitant to do this if it will interfere with current processing.

1) Will removing this will causing issues for running wfs? Have to assume yes.

2) How else can I add the linked wf status column for wf #9?

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    • saharc
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    • September 20, 2018

    Hi, I hope that I understood the question

    Did you try to add the column from list view settings? Somtimes you need to add manually

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    • jcarpenter
    • Author
    • September 20, 2018

    Usually the wf status column is auto created when the wf is run. In this case it did not because there were 8 workflows already on this list. Other than the resolution mentioned above I am not sure how to bring it back. My workflow is not a column available in list view settings.

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    • saharc
    • Novice
    • September 20, 2018

    There is limitation of how many lookup column you can add to list view. maybe that the reason that it didn't show by default

    But I always could add this wf columns from the list view settings. Are you sure you not see this columns?

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    • jcarpenter
    • Author
    • September 20, 2018

    If you are referring to list > create/modify view - yes. Here are the workarounds I have found:

    1) Increase viewable look ups in Central Admin - not worth potential issues

    2) Remove workflow from wf settings and rerun wf- probable negative impact to existing items running wf

    3) Republish wf with new name - no change for existing items running wf

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