Wait for Event - No Entry in Instance Linkage

I have a Wait step in a simple workflow. The step waits for a CL ZCL_XXX event. And the binding has _EVT_OBJECT-->ZCL_XXX instance in the workflow container. Note it is not a BOR event, it is CL event. And Step not in workflow log is UNCHECKED.
The problem: in SWEL, it says "No receiver entered.". And in SWEINST, I cannot find the entry for ZCL_XXX. There is no error message in SWI2_DIAG . And the Wait step is NOT showing either even though Step not in workflow log is UNCHECKED.
I tried deleted the step and then created it again more than once. SWU_OBUF was executed too without any luck.
Why is there no entry in Instance Linkage? Can anyone kindly give me some hints? I feel like I read all Wait related posts in SDN already but still no clue.

Hi Dayong
So,
We have an Instance of ZCL_XXX in the workflow.,
We have done the binding from Event to Wait step _EVT_OBJECT-->ZCL_XXX.
And I am sure you would have already checked the WF log to see if ZCL_XXX has an ACTUAL instance in the main WF container and it is not empty.
Can we check:
Is the KEY of the ZCL_XXX (attribute in class marked as KEY) the same in the Workflow instance as well as event which was triggered (check in SWEL details page) ......even spaces (if any)?
Regards,
Modak

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