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+import os
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from textwrap import dedent
+from typing import Generator, Tuple
+from unittest.mock import Mock
+
+import pytest
+from qtpy.QtCore import Qt, QTimer
+
+from ert.config import ErtConfig
+from ert.enkf_main import EnKFMain
+from ert.gui.ertwidgets.closabledialog import ClosableDialog
+from ert.gui.main import _setup_main_window
+from ert.gui.main_window import ErtMainWindow
+from ert.gui.tools.event_viewer import GUILogHandler
+from ert.gui.tools.workflows import RunWorkflowWidget
+from ert.run_models import EnsembleExperiment
+from ert.services import StorageService
+from ert.shared.plugins.plugin_manager import ErtPluginContext
+from ert.storage import Storage, open_storage
+
+from ..conftest import get_child, wait_for_child
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def _open_main_window(
+    path,
+) -> Generator[Tuple[ErtMainWindow, Storage, ErtConfig], None, None]:
+    (path / "config.ert").write_text(
+        dedent("""
+    QUEUE_SYSTEM LOCAL
+    NUM_REALIZATIONS 1
+    LOAD_WORKFLOW test_wf
+    """)
+    )
+    (path / "test_wf").write_text("EXPORT_RUNPATH\n")
+    with ErtPluginContext() as ctx:
+        config = ErtConfig.with_plugins(
+            ctx.plugin_manager.forward_model_steps
+        ).from_file(path / "config.ert")
+        enkf_main = EnKFMain(config)
+
+        args_mock = Mock()
+        args_mock.config = "config.ert"
+        # handler defined here to ensure lifetime until end of function, if inlined
+        # it will cause the following error:
+        # RuntimeError: wrapped C/C++ object of type GUILogHandler
+        handler = GUILogHandler()
+        with open_storage(config.ens_path, mode="w") as storage:
+            gui = _setup_main_window(enkf_main, args_mock, handler, storage)
+            yield gui, storage, config
+            gui.close()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def open_gui(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.chdir(tmp_path)
+    with _open_main_window(tmp_path) as (
+        gui,
+        _,
+        config,
+    ), StorageService.init_service(
+        project=os.path.abspath(config.ens_path),
+    ):
+        yield gui
+
+
+def test_run_export_runpath_workflow(open_gui, qtbot, run_experiment):
+    gui = open_gui
+    run_experiment(EnsembleExperiment, gui)
+
+    workflow_tool = gui.tools["Run workflow"]
+
+    def handle_run_workflow_tool():
+        dialog = wait_for_child(gui, qtbot, ClosableDialog)
+        workflow_widget = get_child(dialog, RunWorkflowWidget)
+
+        def close_all():
+            workflow_widget._running_workflow_dialog.accept()
+            dialog.close()
+
+        workflow_widget.workflowSucceeded.disconnect()
+        workflow_widget.workflowSucceeded.connect(close_all)
+        qtbot.mouseClick(workflow_widget.run_button, Qt.MouseButton.LeftButton)
+
+    QTimer.singleShot(1000, handle_run_workflow_tool)
+    workflow_tool.trigger()
+
+    assert os.path.isfile(".ert_runpath_list")