diff --git a/src/app/core/submission/models/edititem.model.ts b/src/app/core/submission/models/edititem.model.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c8da2ab5a..0000000000
--- a/src/app/core/submission/models/edititem.model.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-import { Workspaceitem } from './workspaceitem.model';
-
-export class EditItem extends Workspaceitem {
-}
diff --git a/src/app/core/submission/models/normalized-edititem.model.ts b/src/app/core/submission/models/normalized-edititem.model.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 5615512399..0000000000
--- a/src/app/core/submission/models/normalized-edititem.model.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-import { inheritSerialization } from 'cerialize';
-import { mapsTo } from '../../cache/builders/build-decorators';
-import { NormalizedSubmissionObject } from './normalized-submission-object.model';
-import { EditItem } from './edititem.model';
-
-@mapsTo(EditItem)
-@inheritSerialization(NormalizedSubmissionObject)
-export class NormalizedEditItem extends NormalizedSubmissionObject<EditItem> {
-
-}
diff --git a/src/app/core/submission/submission-resource-type.ts b/src/app/core/submission/submission-resource-type.ts
index 8718fc55d3..f5b8e2c423 100644
--- a/src/app/core/submission/submission-resource-type.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/submission/submission-resource-type.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ export enum SubmissionResourceType {
   Group = 'group',
   WorkspaceItem = 'workspaceitem',
   WorkflowItem = 'workflowitem',
-  EditItem = 'edititem',
   SubmissionDefinitions = 'submissiondefinitions',
   SubmissionDefinition = 'submissiondefinition',
   SubmissionForm = 'submissionform',
diff --git a/src/app/core/submission/submission-response-parsing.service.ts b/src/app/core/submission/submission-response-parsing.service.ts
index d793b90e56..20dfb43cbd 100644
--- a/src/app/core/submission/submission-response-parsing.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/submission/submission-response-parsing.service.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ import { ObjectCacheService } from '../cache/object-cache.service';
 import { SubmissionResourceType } from './submission-resource-type';
 import { NormalizedWorkspaceItem } from './models/normalized-workspaceitem.model';
 import { NormalizedWorkflowItem } from './models/normalized-workflowitem.model';
-import { NormalizedEditItem } from './models/normalized-edititem.model';
 import { FormFieldMetadataValueObject } from '../../shared/form/builder/models/form-field-metadata-value.model';
 import { SubmissionObject } from './models/submission-object.model';
 import { NormalizedObjectFactory } from '../cache/models/normalized-object-factory';
@@ -127,8 +126,7 @@ export class SubmissionResponseParsingService extends BaseResponseParsingService
       let normalizedItem = Object.assign({}, item);
       // In case data is an Instance of NormalizedWorkspaceItem normalize field value of all the section of type form
       if (item instanceof NormalizedWorkspaceItem
-        || item instanceof NormalizedWorkflowItem
-        || item instanceof NormalizedEditItem) {
+        || item instanceof NormalizedWorkflowItem) {
         if (item.sections) {
           const precessedSection = Object.create({});
           // Iterate over all workspaceitem's sections
diff --git a/src/app/core/submission/submission-scope-type.ts b/src/app/core/submission/submission-scope-type.ts
index 80d57c853f..6ed32d3b4e 100644
--- a/src/app/core/submission/submission-scope-type.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/submission/submission-scope-type.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 export enum SubmissionScopeType {
   WorkspaceItem = 'WORKSPACE',
-  WorkflowItem = 'WORKFLOW',
-  EditItem = 'ITEM',
+  WorkflowItem = 'WORKFLOW'
 }
diff --git a/src/app/submission/submission.service.spec.ts b/src/app/submission/submission.service.spec.ts
index a35cf8329c..d764f09538 100644
--- a/src/app/submission/submission.service.spec.ts
+++ b/src/app/submission/submission.service.spec.ts
@@ -660,9 +660,6 @@ describe('SubmissionService test suite', () => {
       router.setRoute('/workflowitems/826/edit');
       expect(service.getSubmissionScope()).toBe(expected);
 
-      expected = SubmissionScopeType.EditItem;
-      router.setRoute('/items/9e79b1f2-ae0f-4737-9a4b-990952a8857c/edit');
-      expect(service.getSubmissionScope()).toBe(expected);
     });
   });
 
diff --git a/src/app/submission/submission.service.ts b/src/app/submission/submission.service.ts
index 11b26e2b5e..82185a8eae 100644
--- a/src/app/submission/submission.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/submission/submission.service.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ export class SubmissionService {
    * @param {GlobalConfig} EnvConfig
    * @param {NotificationsService} notificationsService
    * @param {SubmissionRestService} restService
-   * @param {Router} restSerroutervice
+   * @param {Router} router
    * @param {RouteService} routeService
    * @param {Store<SubmissionState>} store
    * @param {TranslateService} translate
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ export class SubmissionService {
    *
    * @param submissionId
    *    The submission id
+   * @param sectionId
+   *    The section id
    */
   dispatchSaveSection(submissionId, sectionId) {
     this.store.dispatch(new SaveSubmissionSectionFormAction(submissionId, sectionId));
@@ -327,9 +329,6 @@ export class SubmissionService {
       case 'workflowitems':
         scope = SubmissionScopeType.WorkflowItem;
         break;
-      case 'edititems':
-        scope = SubmissionScopeType.EditItem;
-        break;
     }
     return scope;
   }
@@ -400,8 +399,8 @@ export class SubmissionService {
   /**
    * Return the visibility status of the specified section
    *
-   * @param submissionId
-   *    The submission id
+   * @param sectionData
+   *    The section data
    * @return boolean
    *    true if section is hidden, false otherwise
    */
@@ -432,6 +431,8 @@ export class SubmissionService {
    *    The submission id
    * @param sectionId
    *    The section id
+   * @param sectionType
+   *    The section type
    */
   notifyNewSection(submissionId: string, sectionId: string, sectionType?: SectionsType) {
     const m = this.translate.instant('submission.sections.general.metadata-extracted-new-section', { sectionId });