Updated: 2009-11-12

[This article is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases.]

You can modify the configuration settings for existing workflow associations, cancel running workflows, remove workflow associations, and uninstall or delete workflows from your site.

In this section:

• Activate or deactivate a workflow (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  Workflows that are deployed as a feature package must be activated to be available to use on lists, libraries, content types, or sites. This article describes how to activate or deactivate a workflow that has been deployed as a feature package.
  
  
• Add a workflow association (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  Before a workflow can be run, it must be associated with a list, library, content type, or site. This article describes how to associate a workflow template with a list, library, content type, or site.
  
  
• Modify a workflow association (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  This article describes how to modify the configurable options that are available for most for workflow associations.
  
  
• Remove a workflow association (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  Workflow templates must be associated with a list, library, content type, or site before it can be run. This article describes how to disassociate a workflow template from a list, library, content type, or site.
  
  
• Start a workflow instance (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  Workflows can be configured to start when a particular event occurs or can be started manually by a user. This article describes how to start a workflow manually.
  
  
• Cancel or terminate a workflow instance (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  If you do not want an instance of a workflow to complete you can cancel the workflow. You can terminate a workflow that cannot be cancelled either because it does not support cancellation or because the workflow has stopped responding. This article describes how to cancel or terminate a workflow.
  
  
• Uninstall a workflow (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  This article describes how to uninstall a workflow that is deployed as a feature.
  
  
• Delete a SharePoint Designer workflow (SharePoint Server 2010)
  
  This article describes how to delete a workflow that was deployed using SharePoint Designer.