A weird one today that I'm guessing is just something I'm doing wrong.
I have a workflow with a form variable "Send to" (Choice field with options "POC" and "QC Inspector"):
And than a Run If action...
At some point the workflow stopped working. After some troubleshooting I started logging the output of the "Send to" variable to a history log and am seeing it mysteriously wrapped in a "<Value>" tag...
If I change my Run If to "contains" instead of "equal" (e.g. variable contains "POC" v. variable equals "POC") my workflow runs again.
Does anyone know why or how this form value would begin returning wrapped in a "<Value>" tag?
I'm using an unmodified OOTB InfoPath form:
Thanks!
Because you're using an Infopath Form, I assume that it is the nature of that beast which is returning values to you in some type of XML format rather than a semicolon delimited string (which is how Nintex Forms returns multi-select values).
I would recommend running your same test, but instead of only selecting one value, select both.
Determine:
<Value>POC</Value>
<Value>QC Inspector</Value>
<Value>POC QC Inspector</Value>
<Value>POC,QC Inspector</Value>
or<Value>POC; QC Inspector</Value>
Either way, you should now be able to parse the information in your workflow however you'd like.
I hope that this helps.
Thanks so much for your thoughtful and interesting solution. Selecting both values does indeed return "<Value>POC</Value><Value>QC Inspector</Value>" so I'm sure your approach would work, and when I get time I'll implement it because I like the precision of knowing those values exactly.
For the time being I went with a much lazier solution, simply testing the variable to see if it contains "POC" or "QC Inspector" (which works because this is currently the only use for the variable):
I guess my bigger concern is why did this suddenly change to be like this, and if it's some kind of global change (e.g. a SharePoint update happened) do I have this problem in other workflows but don't know it yet?
I ended up with the InfoPath form only because I selected that option for "Form type" when creating the workflow. Somehow it was created by Nintex (I presume) when the workflow was published. I haven't tried to touch or modify it at all....it's all out-of-the-box.
Thanks again for the solution!