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Ability to stop and delete a JO Program after it's been paused

Related products:CS Journey Orchestrator, Email & Notifications
  • November 13, 2019
  • 22 replies
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Hello, I’ve paused a few programs that I will not be making active again and have no way of deleting them (the trash can icon is greyed out). Is there a reason we are unable to delete paused programs?

22 replies

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  • Helper ⭐️
  • December 23, 2019

Hi can I get some kind of feedback on this?


sai_ram
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  • Expert ⭐️⭐️
  • January 7, 2020

@ana_g sorry for the delay here, our product team has already considered this and added to our long term road-map. 

Thanks for bringing this up!


travis_floyd
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  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • February 1, 2021

I have tun into this issue today, and the only option I have is to RESUME the program, and then try to STOP it hopefully before it actually sends anything out.  This is UNACCEPTABLE!  When is this supposed to be addressed?


davebrown2242
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  • Helper ⭐️
  • February 1, 2021

+1 - I did what @travis_floyd is tasked with doing a month or two ago - about 100+ emails sent. Not A Good Look for Us GS Admins.


darkknight
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  • Expert ⭐️
  • February 2, 2021

@kelly FYI


  • Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • June 24, 2021

Hello All,
I understand the pain point of this. We are building a new platform for JO, i have added this to roadmap of new platform. I will update once it is prioritised. 


TMaier
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  • Helper ⭐️
  • September 27, 2022

@chethana Any update on whether this made the cut for the JO redesign? It’s a pain to have paused programs that need to be stopped, and feel uncomfortable about having to restart them in order to fully stop them.


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  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️
  • January 18, 2023

 Hi, Any update on when we can have an option to delete the paused program? 


Sophie Lead Forensics

I’m waiting on an update for this too! Any news, Gainsight? 


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  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️
  • July 4, 2023

@PavanCh - Can you please help us with the update on this community request?

Thanks!


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  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • July 26, 2023

Also would love an update- it’s so risky to resume a JO in order to stop it and just cross your fingers that you did it fast enough so no new emails are sent. This feels like a completely unnecessary step which makes stopping these programs really difficult. Any news on prioritizing this update?


  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️
  • July 26, 2023

@chethana and @sai_ram 

It looks like this update has been on Gainsight’s long-term road map for ~3 years, with the latest update being ~2 years ago. Do either of you have an update for us?


Ester.Memoli
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  • Helper ⭐️
  • August 14, 2023

Hello! I just discovered that I cannot stop a Paused JO, hence I cannot close the linked survey attached to it.

When is this feature going to be implemented? It is very annoying, as for sure cannot resume and stop the JO, as it will mail the participants.

Please give us updates, as this was acknowledged 3 years ago already.

Thanks


angela_domenichelli
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  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • December 22, 2023

+100

We do not want to make a program active and trigger new activity in order to stop the program.


dayn.johnson
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  • September 27, 2024

@sai_ram can we get an update on this, please?

It doesn’t look like this has been added in dynamic JO at this point.

Couple related posts (including a new related idea):

 


  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️
  • October 31, 2024

@sai_ram @Gainsight CC Team Can you please review the above?


dayn.johnson
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  • July 21, 2025

Hi ​@revathimenon, could we please get some eyes on this?

Been asking in the GGA Slack community to see other users best practices on cleaning up one-time (1x) journey orchestrator programs, since so many of us admins use them in favor of simple programs, and the process of stopping all of our old programs is painful – it’s a one-by-one stop and archive, and we have to decide whether to go through and do it quarterly, mid year, or annually (as able) when our instance gets too messy.

 


revathimenon
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  • Gainsight Community Manager
  • July 22, 2025

Noted ​@dayn.johnson 

Will raise this internally.


vmallya
  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️
  • July 22, 2025

@revathimenon and ​everyone in this thread - The programs in the new version (Dynamic Programs) allow you to stop the program if it is paused. We are not making any immediate changes to the old version, so I'm marking this as released. Thank you.

 

Apologies for the lack of responses from our side; this thread was not categorized correctly and went unnoticed.


vmallya
  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️
  • July 22, 2025
New IdeaReleased

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  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️
  • December 17, 2025

@vmallya Given the recent compromise and Gainsight setting JOs to PAUSE for many users, can we please get this enhancement? My team does not want to accidentally send emails after 3 weeks of inactivity. I’m unable to drop participants from the old version or stop the old version. Can we at least get this done with a support ticket?

 


vmallya
  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️
  • December 18, 2025

​Yes, @JamesSpeer - you can share the programs list in a support ticket.