Very noob question here I suppose. Apologies if it falls in the wrong forum or in some way violates etiquette. I have a Sharepoint task item-initiated workflow that needs to branch off to one of 5 different sub-workflows (could be child processes, or maybe not) based on a initiator-specified value. I could not find a way for the 'Start' activity to parse out the value and send the workflow off down one of the branches. I can add multiple outcomes to the first 'Activity' added to a workflow, but only (it seems to me) if it is a client event. At that point, I don't think the workflow is relying on a user to do something to affect the process moving on into one of the available branches. I certainly don't want to require a step where someone has to change the field in the UI, in order to affect the movement to one branch or other.
Is there a Server event that can have outcomes based on the value of a data field? Or is that barking up the wrong tree? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. If it makes sense I can post the source files....broken/nonfunctional as they are.
Thank you...