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Orchestration End Component: Response Body Validation Warning Won't Clear

✓ Verified Orchestrate 2 lookups
The error Warning on 04b0f8fd-79d4-4cc9-96b0-3a7ceeb488fd Flow contains a resource that is not used: 04b0f8fd-79d4-4cc9-96b0-3a7ceeb488fd

What it means

When you configure an Orchestration End component's response body with the Create Structure option and later switch it to Reference Existing Data, Workday leaves behind a phantom validation warning pointing at a resource ID that no longer exists anywhere in the flow. Workday's product team confirmed this is a known bug, and it does not block your build.

Troubleshooting

  1. Reproduce the pattern: on a synchronous orchestration's End component, configure the response body via Create Structure, save, then reconfigure the same field via Reference Existing Data and save again.
  2. Check whether the warning references a resource ID (a UUID-style string) that no longer appears anywhere in your orchestration's structure. That pattern matches this specific known bug rather than a genuine unused-resource warning.
  3. Confirm the orchestration still builds and compiles successfully despite the warning. That is what distinguishes this cosmetic bug from a real blocking validation error.
  4. If the warning references a resource ID you can still find elsewhere in the flow, that is a different, real unused-resource warning and should be investigated on its own rather than assumed to be this bug.
⚡ Quick fix

Confirm the orchestration still builds and compiles despite the warning, then proceed with deployment. Do not spend time trying to make the phantom warning disappear by re-editing the response body repeatedly, doing so just generates additional copies of the same warning.

✓ Permanent fix

There is no customer-side fix. Workday's product team has an internal ticket open for the leftover-reference bug in the Orchestration End component's validation logic. Watch your release notes for a fix, or reference this behavior in a support case if you want your tenant linked to the existing ticket.

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