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As a result of this behavior, you can load workflow definitions with invalid foreign keys into Oracle Workflow Builder to correct. Oracle Workflow Builder preserves the original internal name reference for any missing foreign key, and displays it in a validation error message when you load the process definition. You can restore a broken foreign key reference in a process definition by recreating the deleted object with its original internal name under its original item type.

You can also delete an entire item type definition in Oracle Workflow Builder.

Note: If you want to delete an item type attribute from a workflow definition in a database, you must use Oracle Workflow Builder to connect to that database in order to perform the deletion. Deleting an item attribute from a workflow definition stored in a flat file and then uploading that flat file definition to a database will not delete the item attribute from the definition stored in the database. To delete an item attribute completely, you must delete it from your flat file definition and also delete it specifically from any databases in which that workflow item type is loaded while connected to those databases.