Thanks @arunpatidar @Tethich We proceeded with OR split with no-ops step.  Please note that in sp12 Jobhandler class, workitem is made null and the same Object is used in next line to print logger, hence the null exception. This issue is fixed in the higher SPs.

Hi @Tethich 1. Yes. workflows are not marked transient when they were created and we do not want to change it now. 2. Workflow.complete completes only current step, however we want to complete the entire workflow. Is there any option to do that?3. Since non-transient workflows are already saved, do ...

Context :1. AEM is running on sp12 2. Workflows are not transient and we do not want to convert them to transient since we need the history. Problem :  We have a workflow where we need to introduce process step and have below logic in it :if(custom field is valid){   proceed with usual flow;}else{  ...