We have a budget list that uses a SharePoint 2013 workflow, created in SP Designer, for an approval process. The workflow has been been publishing and running fine for at least a month. The client requested some small changes, which I made and then published.
When I published the changes, I noticed that there were now two workflows with the same name but different subscription IDs in the list instead of the previous version being overwritten like it usually does. This caused major issues because now two workflows
with the same name were kicking off if an item was changed. The workaround was to disable new instances of the first workflow, but this still led to issues when users needed to make change requests on items that were running the earlier version of the workflow
(it would kick off the new, duplicate WF). We can't remove the previous WF because there are still around 70 items running with that version. Why did it publish a duplicate WF, and how can we fix this issue?
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