Parent workflow is closed before child workflow even if WaitForCancellation is set to true

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I have the following child wf options set when creating child workflows.

childWfOpts := workflow.ChildWorkflowOptions{
…
WaitForCancellation: true,
ParentClosePolicy: enums.PARENT_CLOSE_POLICY_REQUEST_CANCEL,
}

I cancelled the parent workflow and expected that the parent workflow doesn’t get ‘Cancelled’ till all the child workflows are ‘Cancelled’. Am I wrong in assuming this?

I’m attaching a screenshot which shows that the child workflows are still running even if the parent workflow closed.

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2

You must explicitly wait for the child workflow completion before completing the parent.

3

Was able to figure that out just today. Thanks!

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