Workflow Context does not start if workflow activity definition is missing - Known Error

Workflow Context does not start if workflow activity definition is missing Description Workflow Context does not start if workflow activity definition is missing,

09/22/16 14:45:26 (464) BEECF85D13062200ED373D62F244B0FD Error running script engine: com.glideapp.workflow.model.ModelRunTimeException: Record not available for wf_element_definition: : com.glideapp.workflow.model.cache.ElementDefinitionCache.getExtendedRecord(ElementDefinitionCache.java:59) com.glideapp.workflow.model.cache.ElementDefinitionCache.loadWFElementDefinition(ElementDefinitionCache.java:46) com.glideapp.workflow.model.cache.ElementDefinitionCache.getById(ElementDefinitionCache.java:33) com.glideapp.workflow.model.pojos.WorkflowActivity. (WorkflowActivity.java:43) com.glideapp.workflow.model.models.CachedWorkflowModel$ModelPreloader.loadActivities(CachedWorkflowModel.java:127) com.glideapp.workflow.model.models.CachedWorkflowModel$ModelPreloader.loadEntireModel(CachedWorkflowModel.java:114) com.glideapp.workflow.model.models.CachedWorkflowModel$ModelPreloader.access$100(CachedWorkflowModel.java:108) com.glideapp.workflow.model.models.CachedWorkflowModel. (CachedWorkflowModel.java:46) com.glideapp.workflow.model.models.CachedWorkflowModel.load(CachedWorkflowModel.java:41) com.glideapp.workflow.model.cache.WorkflowModelFactory.getModel(WorkflowModelFactory.java:38) com.glideapp.workflow.model.WorkflowPath. (WorkflowPath.java:84) com.glideapp.workflow.stages.WorkflowStageList.findForwardPath(WorkflowStageList.java:813) com.glideapp.workflow.stages.WorkflowStageList.getStageFuture(WorkflowStageList.java:786) com.glideapp.workflow.stages.WorkflowStageList.getStageFuture(WorkflowStageList.java:799) com.glideapp.workflow.stages.WorkflowStageList.createStageStates(WorkflowStageList.java:173) com.glideapp.workflow.stages.WorkflowStageList.createStageStates(WorkflowStageList.java:132) com.glideapp.workflow.engine.ContextCreator.create(ContextCreator.java:75) com.glideapp.workflow.engine.WorkflowManager.createFlows(WorkflowManager.java:145) com.glideapp.workflow.engine.WorkflowEngine.runEngine(WorkflowEngine.java:104) com.glide.policy.AScriptEngine.process(AScriptEngine.java:34) com.glide.script.ScriptEngines.run(ScriptEngines.java:102) com.glide.script.GlideRecord.runScriptsAndEngines(GlideRecord.java:1166) com.glide.script.GlideRecord.updateWithoutResettingOperation(GlideRecord.java:4135) com.glide.script.GlideRecord.update(GlideRecord.java:4081) com.glide.script.GlideRecord.jsFunction_update(GlideRecord.java:3892) sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor62.invoke(Unknown Source) sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) org.mozilla.javascript.MemberBox.invoke(MemberBox.java:138) org.mozilla.javascript.FunctionObject.doInvoke(FunctionObject.java:637) org.mozilla.javascript.FunctionObject.call(FunctionObject.java:581) org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.doCall(ScriptRuntime.java:2574) org.mozilla.javascript.optimizer.OptRuntime.callProp0(OptRuntime.java:85) org.mozilla.javascript.gen._refname__3992._c_script_0( :2) org.mozilla.javascript.gen._refname__3992.call( ) org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.doTopCall(ContextFactory.java:560) org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.doTopCall(ScriptRuntime.java:3439) org.mozilla.javascript.gen._refname__3992.call( ) org.mozilla.javascript.gen._refname__3992.exec( ) com.glide.script.ScriptEvaluator.execute(ScriptEvaluator.java:236) com.glide.script.ScriptEvaluator.evaluateString(ScriptEvaluator.java:107) com.glide.script.ScriptEvaluator.evaluateString(ScriptEvaluator.java:73) com.glide.script.ScriptEvaluator.evaluateString(ScriptEvaluator.java:64) com.glide.script.Evaluator.evaluateString(Evaluator.java:91) com.glide.script.GlideRhinoHelper.evaluateAsString(GlideRhinoHelper.java:130) com.glide.script.ActionScript.conditionalEval(ActionScript.java:91) com.glide.script.ActionScript.execute(ActionScript.java:77) com.glide.script.ActionScriptProcessor.processScript(ActionScriptProcessor.java:134) com.glide.script.Action.process(Action.java:115) com.glide.ui.RedirectTransaction.invokeAction(RedirectTransaction.java:421) com.glide.ui.RedirectTransaction.handleActions(RedirectTransaction.java:388) com.glide.ui.RedirectTransaction.inboundActions(RedirectTransaction.java:224) com.glide.ui.RedirectTransaction.process(RedirectTransaction.java:93) com.glide.ui.GlideServletUITransaction.process(GlideServletUITransaction.java:74) com.glide.processors.AProcessor.runProcessor(AProcessor.java:412) com.glide.processors.AProcessor.processTransaction(AProcessor.java:187) com.glide.processors.ProcessorRegistry.process(ProcessorRegistry.java:165) com.glide.ui.GlideServletTransaction.process(GlideServletTransaction.java:49) com.glide.sys.ServletTransaction.run(ServletTransaction.java:34) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Steps to Reproduce

Delete a workflow activity definition Submit a request using that workflow The workflow is not attaching to the request. The below error is also visible from the logs - com.glideapp.workflow.model.ModelRunTimeException: Record not available for wf_element_definition: , where sys_id is the sys_id of the missing workflow activity definition. Workaround Restore the missing workflow activity definition.