Hi there

I'm importing data from a spreadsheet into a taxonomy and I'm using workflows 
for import steps.

If I start a workflow and then complete a spreadsheet import, how can I 'undo' 
the import within the workflow, but keep the existing workflow 'active'/'open'. 
Can an import be rolled back or undone ? At the moment the only way I've found 
to 'undo' the import is to cancel the entire workflow which then deletes the 
workflow. Sure, this is the purpose of  workflows I guess and this works if a 
new workflow is used only for the import and no other commits. But this seems a 
little limited. I often want to redo the import after making some changes to 
import properties for example, but wish to have one or two related steps within 
the workflow after the import that I want to keep the same. Plus a small hassle 
- I dont want to have to delete the workflow and re enter it's name and its 
description each time.

Side note - I guess my use case makes importing particularly intensive as I'm 
importing recursively and it takes a bit of iteration to get it working at each 
step. It would be fantastic to be able to control recursion somehow when 
importing a sheet. I know some of this recursion can be done if the sheet is re 
formatted as column based trees. But this is a) a bit onerous with a sheet with 
many columns (requiring a lot of excel jiggery pokery to format it), and b) 
won't facilitate more complicated re-cursive imports - e.g. convoluted nesting 
or relationships. 

Seems like it needs a process like TBCME uses for xml with xsd e.g. import 
excel sheet -> create or add a sheet schema -> ingest sheet using schema to 
recusrively add elements and property values.   Looks like you can add an xml 
schema to an excel workbook, then export the xml. But can it be done all within 
TQ stack? If you have any hot tips to help here I'd be most interested.

Cheers 

Simon

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