Side Effects of switching from Application Controlled Workflow to Process

We have switched our development environmnet from application controlled workflow to process controlled workflow. We noticed that when we try to pull up old shopping carts that are awaiting approval we get dumps.
Is this a known issue when converting from application controlled workflow to processing controlled workflow?
Regards,
-Paul

Hi,
What kind of dump did you get?
My understanding is it should work if SC is created in SRM 7.0 with AC workflow.
Regards,
Masa

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