How to find out which attributes being used from List in the live workflows

Hi ​@ShivamAr,

I’ve been thinking about developing a workflow that examines all the XML definitions and looks for a set of file names  (for instance: @field vars.field). Any items not present in any active workflow could be candidates for removal. This could be achieved with a Java Script activity to compile the list of attributes , followed by the scanning through the workflow definitions. 

Try and let me know how it goes.

Best, 

Celia

Hi ShivamAr,

We addressed this exact pain point by searching across all workflows, all deliveries, all schemas and all lists with acc.

Following your example, you would download your workflows as local XML files with 1 command:

acc instance pull --metadata xtk:workflow

You may then search among workflows via any tool. VS Code would be the best candidate for your 100 attributes, as they can se searched via regular expression. 

In the below use case, the list LST7 has 4 attributes: @attribute1, @attribute2, @date1, @int1. It is consumed by 3 workflows:

Once downloaded locally, VS Code can run a regex search on all attributes with (attribute1|attribute2|date1|int1):

Any attribute not found can be safely removed from the list as they are unused by workflows.

More details, such as looking for fields to be removed from schema, on https://myrosblog.com/adobe-campaign/acc-cli-find-schema