Greetings,

I wanted to create a workflow that ran when a box was checked in SharePoint. So I started with the initial "run when item updated" SharePoint event integration.

While I could simply put a rule on the start line, I figured this would mess up the statistical reporting on the process. The documents in question would be modified a lot before needing the workflow to run. So there would be lots of instances that would start, but not run down the initial line.

So instead I dropped into code and added a couple of lines to the Start Rule of the entire process.

SPDocItem is what I named my Metadata Field in the SPEvents wizard. Then the XPath I traced from the Object Browser.

  try
{
string strXML = K2.ProcessInstance.XmlFieldsd"SPDocItem"].Value;
string strXPath = "MetaData/Items/Item/ReadyForReview";
string strValue = SourceCode.Workflow.Common.XmlHelper.GetXPathValue(strXML, strXPath);

if (strValue == "True")
{
// Document is ready to review.
}

 else
{
K2.Start = false;
K2.Message = "Document not ready for review yet.";
}
}
 catch (Exception Ex)
{
K2.Start = false;
K2.Message = "Error in Start Rule. Go to Code." + Ex.Message;
}

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If any K2 developers/product managers are looking for an idea, it would be nice to have a wizard for the process start rule that could do some simple comparisons like this.