Delete a workflow and workflow steps

Workflows and steps cannot be deleted when there are existing items in the workflow steps, including the Draft status. Only items that have the workflow applied are considered, excluding items that were in the Draft step when the workflow was assigned to their content type.

If a workflow is removed from the content type (scope), items in the workflow editing cycle keep their current workflow with custom steps until they reach the Published step. If a new editing cycle starts (new item or new version of a published item), the default workflow with only Draft/Published/Unpublished statuses is used.