From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows

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Removing workflow instances

Removing workflow instances

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Removing workflow instances

With SharePoint Designer I can go in and edit a workflow anytime I need to. It's really easy, just open up Designer, click on Workflows. Let's say, for example, I want to change this workflow, I can go ahead and make sure I am in the right place. Here's my overall settings, click Edit Workflow, makes and changes, Save and Publish again, easy enough to do. Every single time I do this SharePoint creates a new version of this workflow. Because it's possible that during the time I have this workflow open working on it, somebody actually goes in and says here's another new hire, and the workflow that they use will be the old one, the one that was open already for me to work with until I Save and Publish this again. All the time I am sitting, having this opened, adding some Actions, changing some steps, it's possible that somebody could be creating a new workflow. So as soon as I open it up, here's a new version that gets created. What do I do with all of these? Well, I can ignore them, but…

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