Workflow stuck on the "Begin" activity after execution and the context has it in executing activities. - Support and Troubleshooting

Workflow stuck on the "Begin" activity after execution and the context has it in executing activities. Issue  Symptoms Workflow stuck on the "Begin" activity after execution and the context has it in executing activities.

Release Any supported release

Cause Having an Active and Published workflow version with no activities defined on the same table.

Resolution Navigate to the wf_workflow table and check if there is any other workflow defined on the same table (ex: change_request). Open each workflow indifferent tabs and make sure there is a Published and Active version in each.

Then verify if each of these workflow versions have at-least the "Begin" and "End" activities.

If there are no workflow activities included in a workflow version, it will make the other valid workflow version to get stuck on the "Begin" activity.

You might see something like below in the logs when the issue happens:

[code] 08:18:11.068 Warning Default-thread-11 8C1BCD54DB31FB00FD7DB34FFE961910 txid=daf29110db71 WARNING *** WARNING *** Activity ID: 0daf84852321230060fadc1756bf651a not found in workflow version: c2e24a43535123008ef67c2c0fc58729 08:18:11.069 Error Default-thread-11 8C1BCD54DB31FB00FD7DB34FFE961910 txid=daf29110db71 SEVERE *** ERROR *** Error running script engine java.lang.NullPointerException [/code]