How to delete workflow copies and backups

Owned by Bob Swift
Last updated: Jan 23, 2020 by Michael Kuhl
1 min read

Summary

My installations get cluttered with workflow copies and backups that are difficult to delete from the UI. They are inactive and it takes many clicks to get rid of these. Here is a quicker way with JCLI and the renderRequest action.

Details

Just substitute in the workflow name below, but make sure it is url encoded first:

--action renderRequest --file "" --request /secure/admin/workflows/DeleteWorkflow.jspa --requestParameters "confirmedDelete=true&workflowName=<<<name of workflow>>>"