diff --git a/addons/crm/crm_lead_view.xml b/addons/crm/crm_lead_view.xml
index 283458ec333..99535d8f8aa 100644
--- a/addons/crm/crm_lead_view.xml
+++ b/addons/crm/crm_lead_view.xml
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@
             <field name="name">Opportunities Tree</field>
             <field name="model">crm.lead</field>
             <field name="arch" type="xml">
-                <tree string="Opportunities" decoration-bf="message_needaction==True" decoration-muted="probability == 100" decoration-danger="date_deadline and (date_deadline &lt; current_date)">
+                <tree string="Opportunities" decoration-bf="message_needaction==True" decoration-muted="probability == 100" decoration-danger="date_action and (date_action &lt; current_date)">
                     <field name="date_deadline" invisible="1"/>
                     <field name="create_date"/>
                     <field name="name" string="Opportunity"/>
diff --git a/openerp/workflow/instance.py b/openerp/workflow/instance.py
index 4987c4ad355..7baf6fddf88 100644
--- a/openerp/workflow/instance.py
+++ b/openerp/workflow/instance.py
@@ -52,7 +52,12 @@ class WorkflowInstance(object):
         cr = self.session.cr
         cr.execute("select * from wkf_workitem where inst_id=%s", (self.instance['id'],))
         stack = []
-        for work_item_values in cr.dictfetchall():
+        for i, work_item_values in enumerate(cr.dictfetchall()):
+            if i > 0:
+                # test if previous workitem has already processed this one
+                cr.execute("select id from wkf_workitem where id=%s", (work_item_values['id'],))
+                if not cr.fetchone():
+                    continue
             wi = WorkflowItem(self.session, self.record, work_item_values)
             wi.process(signal=signal, force_running=force_running, stack=stack)
             # An action is returned