"Crazy" parallel approval step

Hi all,
I'm using R3 v4.7 and I have a very strage problem in a
workflow to approve purchase requisitions.
I use a parallel step with 7 forks (4 mandatory and 3 optional according to the material groups). In this parallel step I use the deadlines to approve automatically after x days.
In some cases I get the following "crazy" behaviour:
the workflow doesn't continue in this parallel step in the normal way. The green line that highlights the flow in the log has interruptions that I don't understand and some tasks can be sent to any user since some steps are skipped wothout a reason.
I still don't know if there are OSS notes about this issue and I should like to know from you if you have found a similar problem using deadlines. The other approval steps (without deadlines) never had a problem like this.
I'd like to attach a screenshot of the log to be clearer...
Thanks in advance and best regards,
Angelo

Hi,
I had a similar issue a while back for a condition. The first step after the left branch somehow returned to the right branch, it looked pretty weird in the workflow log.
I then wrote an OSS message and in the end someone fixed it, it was caused by corrupt data in some of the nodes tables, SAP couldn't tell me how this was possible though.
Other times this can happen if you're on DEV with a couple of WF developers, it then helps to refresh all of the buffers or even logging of and logging in again.
Kind regards, Rob Dielemans

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