Why is the status of my workflow still RUNNING after throwing a WorkflowException?

[charlie_yc]

I created a custom Process Step in my workflow and checked "Handler Advance" & "Do not retry workflow job on failure" in the workflow properties.

When this Process Step encounters an error, it throws a WorkflowException.

However, even after throwing the WorkflowException, the status of my workflow remains RUNNING.

Is this normal?

How do I handle WorkflowException correctly?

[TarunKumar · Accepted solution]

Hi @charlie_yc ,

By default AEM set the max retries count on failure  in Apache Sling Job Default Queue. So, even after failure it retries to complete it might not be useful in this case but many other OOTB workflows needs to be retried.
If you want to customize it then use your custom process and add check for retries count  by counter variable in workflow metadata.


Thanks
Tarun

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