diff --git a/public/pages/workflow_detail/resizable_workspace.tsx b/public/pages/workflow_detail/resizable_workspace.tsx
index 0db6b10f..fac2e65f 100644
--- a/public/pages/workflow_detail/resizable_workspace.tsx
+++ b/public/pages/workflow_detail/resizable_workspace.tsx
@@ -185,24 +185,7 @@ export function ResizableWorkspace(props: ResizableWorkspaceProps) {
 
   // Initialize the form state to an existing workflow, if applicable.
   useEffect(() => {
-    // if (workflow?.ui_metadata?.workspace_flow) {
-    //   const initFormValues = {} as WorkspaceFormValues;
-    //   const initSchemaObj = {} as WorkspaceSchemaObj;
-    //   workflow.ui_metadata.workspace_flow.nodes.forEach((node) => {
-    //     initFormValues[node.id] = componentDataToFormik(node.data);
-    //     initSchemaObj[node.id] = getComponentSchema(node.data);
-    //   });
-    //   const initFormSchema = yup.object(initSchemaObj) as WorkspaceSchema;
-    //   setFormValues(initFormValues);
-    //   setFormSchema(initFormSchema);
-    // }
     if (workflow?.ui_metadata?.config) {
-      // TODO: implement below fns to generate the final form and schema objs.
-      // Should generate the form and its values on-the-fly
-      // similar to what we do with ComponentData in above commented-out code.
-      // This gives us more flexibility and maintainability instead of having to update
-      // low-level form and schema when making config changes (e.g., if of type 'string',
-      // automatically generate the default form values, and the default validation schema)
       const initFormValues = uiConfigToFormik(workflow.ui_metadata.config);
       const initFormSchema = uiConfigToSchema(workflow.ui_metadata.config);
       setFormValues(initFormValues);
diff --git a/public/pages/workflows/new_workflow/utils.ts b/public/pages/workflows/new_workflow/utils.ts
index 06377f9a..2cdde972 100644
--- a/public/pages/workflows/new_workflow/utils.ts
+++ b/public/pages/workflows/new_workflow/utils.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   START_FROM_SCRATCH_WORKFLOW_NAME,
   DEFAULT_NEW_WORKFLOW_NAME,
   UIState,
+  IConfig,
 } from '../../../../common';
 
 // Fn to produce the complete preset template with all necessary UI metadata.
@@ -59,8 +60,11 @@ function fetchEmptyMetadata(): UIState {
           processors: [],
         },
         index: {
-          id: 'index',
-          fields: [],
+          name: {
+            id: 'indexName',
+            type: 'string',
+            label: 'Index name',
+          },
         },
       },
       search: {
@@ -82,49 +86,21 @@ function fetchEmptyMetadata(): UIState {
 }
 
 function fetchSemanticSearchMetadata(): UIState {
+  // We can reuse the base state. Only need to override a few things,
+  // such as preset ingest processors.
+  let baseState = fetchEmptyMetadata();
   const processor = new TextEmbeddingProcessor();
-  return {
-    config: {
-      ingest: {
-        source: {
-          id: 'source',
-          fields: [],
-        },
-        enrich: {
-          processors: [
-            {
-              id: processor.id,
-              fields: processor.fields,
-              metadata: {
-                label: processor.name,
-              },
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-        index: {
-          name: {
-            id: 'indexName',
-            type: 'string',
-            label: 'Index name',
-          },
-        },
-      },
-      search: {
-        request: {
-          id: 'request',
-          fields: [],
-        },
-        enrichRequest: {
-          id: 'enrichRequest',
-          fields: [],
-        },
-        enrichResponse: {
-          id: 'enrichResponse',
-          fields: [],
-        },
+  // @ts-ignore
+  baseState.config.ingest.enrich.processors = [
+    {
+      id: processor.id,
+      fields: processor.fields,
+      metadata: {
+        label: processor.name,
       },
     },
-  };
+  ] as IConfig[];
+  return baseState;
 }
 
 // function fetchSemanticSearchWorkspaceFlow(): WorkspaceFlowState {