https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/4141/we-have-long-running-processes-that-were-initiated-by-users-who-are-now-inactiveWe have long running processes that were initiated by users who are now inactive. These process models have nodes which are configured to be executed by process initiator and they are failing at these nodes. Is there a way in which these processes canen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/14743?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 23 Jan 2015 22:20:19 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:f03f0622-413a-4a4d-a15d-9ea06736b356SteveBy process upgrade do you mean this smart service?...<br /><br /><a href="https://forum.appian.com/suite/tempo/records/type/components/item/i8BWsQdLlzKy55h8z8zJ0sPqpDWFrba_bpd0Wkk2Iv_1yPVnikqr2lqkWETlGCS3Q/view/summary">forum.appian.com/.../summary</a><br /><br />You should be able to create a new version with the correct assignment then use this to upgrade running instances and then to re-start the tasks that have failed. You could try using a Task report to identify the instances which need the re-assigned tasks re-starting.<br /><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/14739?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 23 Jan 2015 21:15:20 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:e3cc86d6-163b-4a27-b5e2-614b490a9dc8robbierIf it is simply a matter of a few processes I believe you could take the manual approach and go in as administrator and reassign these to active users. If you need a more automated approach then this might be something where you could create some process-backed records and loop through those pulling out the assigned to user and replacing that value with something correct. I haven&#39;t done this before so I would need to defer to someone who has some experience with automating updates to in-flight processes.<br /><br />Not sure if it&#39;s a valid option but perhaps to reduce the amount of effort you also might kill/cancel some of these older workflows as they are stale.<div style="clear:both;"></div>