Status of a Workflow Work Item

Use

The permitted statuses of a workflow work item are listed in the table.

Work item status	Description
waiting	The (sub-)workflow is scheduled, but its requested start has not yet been reached.
Ready	Temporary interim status
In process	Execution of the (sub-)workflow has begun.
Completed	The end of the (sub-)workflow has been reached.
logically deleted	Execution of the (sub-)workflow is no longer required or useful. A work item changes to logically deleted status in the following ways: Intervention of a workflow system administrator An administrator can only set a workflow to status logically deleted if this workflow has not yet reached the completed status. Execution of a process control Termination in parallel processing branches When the required number of processing paths has been executed in a fork, the work items in the other paths that have not yet reached completed status are automatically set to the logically deleted status. Note A workflow set to logically deleted is recursively scanned for dialog and workflow work items that do not yet have the status completed. These work items are then also set to the status logically deleted. Note A work item changed from the status executed to the status logically deleted may have already caused database changes or other actions (generate event, send notification). These changes are not canceled automatically, but are recorded in the workflow log.
Errors	An error occurred in workflow control.