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Creating a workflow with conditions

Creating a workflow with conditions

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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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