What happens when the components of an active workflow is re-organised while being edited?

What happens when the components of an active workflow is re-organised while being edited?

If the workflow path is re-organised by moving some components around, some of the old contacts may not move forward and all further actions in the workflow will not be performed on them.
User Scenario
You have an active workflow that will be triggered for a list of contacts who've entered through a signup form. You've set up the workflow for the contacts entering the workflow to be added to a new list. Then you update their job title field to 'Content Marketer' and assign them with a 'Marketer' tag. 

You realise you want to first assign the tag to the contacts and then update their job title. So you re-organise the workflow by placing the 'assign tag' component over the 'update field' component and reactivate the workflow. In this case, all the old contacts whose job titles have already been update will not be assigned with the new tag and only the new contacts entering the opened the email will first be assigned to a new tag and then have their job titles updated.


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