Workflow Content Gone After Renaming and Saving?

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Hello,

I’m reporting an issue: under certain specific circumstances, when I save a renamed workflow, its content disappears.

Here are the reproduction steps:

  1. Create a workflow and name it “KNIME_project”.
  2. Place a node (e.g., Example Data Reader).
  3. Save the workflow.
  4. Exit KNIME while the “KNIME_project” tab remains open.
  5. Launch KNIME.
  6. Confirm that the “KNIME_project” tab is open.
  7. Add another node (e.g., a Row Filter after the node from step 2).
  8. From the save menu in the top left (Floppy icon pulldown), select “Save As…” and save the workflow as “KNIME_project1”.
  9. Close the “KNIME_project1” tab.
  10. When you open “KNIME_project1” from your Local Space, the node you added in step 7 will have disappeared.

My verification environment is KAP 5.4.4 on Win11.

Please note:
Is this related to the topic?

Thanks,

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Hi @tymsk3891

I just followed your protocol and con confirm that the same thing happened for me. I am also on the same version of KNIME and operating system. Sorry I can’t offer a solution but wanted to let the forum know that the problem is reproducable.

Heather

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@tymsk3891 I can confirm this in the version 5.4.4 on Windows.

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Hi,

thanks for the report and detailed steps to reproduce!

I can confirm that it is reproducible in 5.4.4 and 5.3.3 using ModernUI. Restarting KNIME with the to-be-modified workflow open seems to be crucial. If you create a new workflow, edit, save it, edit it, save-as and close and open the saved-as copy, it contains the changes.

I was unable to reproduce it in 5.4.4 using ClassicUI.

I will open a ticket to get it fixed.

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Internal reference is NXT-3735.

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