From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
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Using conditions to make a choice
From the course: SharePoint Designer 2010: Building Custom Workflows
Using conditions to make a choice
Every SharePoint Workflow step can have one or more actions, and one or more conditions. Conditions determine whether an action should take place or not. For example, if we were calculating a payroll, we might want to know whether to use a calculation for over time. So we'd look for the condition, are the total hours greater than 40? Or if we've had someone check a particular box that says they're going to provide us with some other information, we might only want to include that other information if we saw that the box was checked. So conditions come in different flavors just like actions do. There are some conditions that are very specific to a context. These are the conditions that are generally available and are available here in this particular list. So first, If any value equals value, this is very generic and allows us to compare any two things. We could compare a value from a column in a SharePoint list to some static text like a number or date, we can compare two text strings…
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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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