From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
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Creating a workflow with conditions
From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
Creating a workflow with conditions
Here is our sample workflow with the actions built-in, but no conditions. So the actions--just to give you a broad brush here--are when the form's submitted, we're going to email the submitter. If you want to know how to do that this second, go check out the movie called Emailing a Form Submitter. Then what we're going to do is we're going to email the area vice president and wait for them to make a decision. We're going to email the Finance VP and wait, and the HR VP and wait, but we're waiting for something so that we can make a decision. So what we're going to do is we're going to add a condition here to the Area VP approval, and that condition is actually going to go take a look at the answer that that VP provided. So we're going to say, if current item equals value, and we're going to say, if the VP says, yes, well we just keep going. So, what we want to know is, what happens when they say no? Because normally if we didn't add a single condition to this workflow it would happily…
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Understanding SharePoint workflows2m
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Understanding events that start workflows2m 23s
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Understanding workflow steps2m 19s
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Understanding workflow actions3m 13s
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Creating a simple workflow using the Send an Email action7m 45s
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Setting task and history log settings3m 40s
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Creating a workflow using the Wait for Field Change action8m 54s
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Using conditions to make a choice3m 50s
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Using advanced conditions: IF, THEN, and ELSE3m 53s
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Creating a workflow with conditions5m 16s
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Using parallel blocks3m 41s
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