Patent ID: 8302095

Claim:
A workflow processing apparatus executing processing procedures in sequence for data transmitted to a storage location based on setting information of a property of the processing procedures set for the storage location, the workflow processing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a request for updating the setting information which corresponds to a first storage location; a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the data exists in the first storage location when the receiving unit receives the request for updating the setting information which corresponds to the first storage location; and a controlling unit configured to change an original name of the first storage location in which the data exists to a new name, to generate a second storage location having the original name of the first storage location, and to use new setting information according to the request for the second storage location when the determining unit determines that the data exists in the first storage location, wherein, when there is no more data in the first storage location of which the name is changed to the new name, the controlling unit deletes the first storage location.