Modelled deadline with multiline container subworkflow woes

Hi,
In a modelled deadline I am trying to put a subworkflow step with a mutliline container element
( ie when deadline reached, run the subworkflow once for everything in the container.
Workflow(s) compile and activate ok, however at runtime
I get the following error :
Inconsistent workflow definition: Join for fork node no. 158 not found
(this is the subworkflow node)
Extras -> Special functions -> Block correction didn't find anything. Tried saving & activating, logging on and off, sacrificing chickens.. well maybe not the last one
yet !   Any ideas ?
PS Binding : &W_FC_MGR[&_WF_PARFOREACH_INDEX&]& =>
            &W_AGENT&

Hi Ian,
Always mention system/version when asking questions.
On older systems (4.6c I think) I've had some strange things happen when creating modelled deadlines manually. So I got into the habit of using the wizard to intially create all my modelled deadlines on pre-620 systems.
Failing that, most of the time I've seen those type messages I was right and the WF builder was the confused one. The time-saving route is often to simply delete and recreate the offending step.
Failing that, try creating it elsewhere in the WF and seeing if that checks out OK. If so, then cut-n-paste it to where you want in your deadline. If it complains after that (unlikely), log it with OSS.
Cheers,
Mike

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