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title: Delete a workflow and workflow steps
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/notifications.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/customization/handle-global-events/set-up-custom-workflow-notifications.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

## 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editing cycle starts (new item or new version of a published item), the default workflow with only **Draft/Published/Unpublished**  statuses is used.