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Abort parent workflow if child workflow fails

  • July 3, 2025
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Hey everyone,

I’m working on a workflow setup where I have a parent workflow that kicks off a child workflow which includes approval logic. My goal is for the parent workflow to automatically finish or abort if those approvals within child workflow are rejected.

Does anyone have experience with this or any suggestion on how to achieve this? All input is greatly appreciated.

Best answer by Pawan Gangwani

Hello ​@Servesh 

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Servesh, you must have rejection path in Child workflow. Now let;s setup the Parent workflow first.

1. Parent Workflow. In parent workflow when you call child workflow in that you can configure the “Output” path as Reject and Approve.
 

  1. Child Workflow: Use the “Set Workflow Output” after the rejection and update the same as you created option in parent workflow. refer the snapshot below.

Thanks!

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  • July 3, 2025

Hello ​@Servesh 

Welcome to the DocuSign Community!

Servesh, you must have rejection path in Child workflow. Now let;s setup the Parent workflow first.

1. Parent Workflow. In parent workflow when you call child workflow in that you can configure the “Output” path as Reject and Approve.
 

  1. Child Workflow: Use the “Set Workflow Output” after the rejection and update the same as you created option in parent workflow. refer the snapshot below.

Thanks!

👪 DocuSign Community Leaderboard Top 5 contributor
💹 Ranked #3 in the Reply Royalty category in DocuSign Community Wrapped 2024
🤝Let’s LinkedIn and roll: Pawan Gangwani - EY | LinkedIn

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