3786521 - Why the workflow status is Draft and How to process such workflows?

• Why the workflow status is shown as Draft.
• How to process such workflows as there is no such status in the admin tool "Manage Workflow Requests".
  
  
  
  
  

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SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central - Latest People Profile

1. Log in to the instance.
2. Trigger any workflow up to the point where you see the pop-up for workflow. (Do not click "submit" or "cancel" at this point).
3. Navigate to Data Inspector-->Table_WF_REQUEST-->provide the Workflow Request Id. (Workflow Request Id can be fetched from table Table_EMP_WF_REQUEST).
4. Observe the status of the workflow.

• "Draft" is a temporary workflow status that is introduced with Latest People Profile.
  
  
• When any workflow is triggered and the Pop-up appears for the workflow, at this point of time the workflow status is "Draft".
  Now, if "Submit" button is clicked then workflow status changes to "Pending" ,
  and if "Cancel" button is clicked then workflow status changes to "Deleted".
  
  
  
  
• However, if in some cases the "Draft" status still exists then system automatically runs a JOB to clean the "Draft" workflows for those which have been created 2 days or before. 
  
  
• Users need not to worry about handling/processing Draft status workflows because the system handles it on its own. 

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