setting a condition based on column name and modified date

Do you want the workflow to start based on these conditions or just the loop?

you can look at conditional start settings on the workflow itself (on workflow settings)

or you could use a run if action and put your loop inside that?

unfortunately you will not be able to identify changes made to list fields within workflow in an easy way.

workflow does provide access to fields' previous values OOTB.

basically there are 3 possible approaches how to achieve that

- start workflow conditionally on a field change.

- parse and examine item's version history.

this requires versioning is enabled on the list.

to get item's version history you will need to make web service call to Versions.asmx. it return whole history track in a XML. so you will need to parse it out to get changes of your 4 fields and evaluate whether they are changes you need to process.

- maintain previous fields' values on your own in additional list fields.

that is toilsome, hard to maintain, and not reliable.

I'd recommend to go for conditionally started workflow.

likely you need not to change your existing workflow. create one another workflow (if you do not care which of four fields changed) or four another workflows (if you care) that will watch for filed change(s). from this/these workflow start your existing workflow.

ok. so let's try to clarify things a bit more.

- what is the loop suppose to do? I hope it is not to process several (subsequent) changes to list fields...

- why do you need to wait within the loop? what do you wait for?

- is it important to know which of those 4 fields has changed?

create some logic that will run loop only if column f1 or f2, or f3 or f4 are modified

...

if it goes into my loop it will be in a wait state if none of those fields have changed

so do you check the same condition twice?

once before you enter loop, and within the loop as well?

could you maybe rather describe what's the process you want to implement instead of what you technically done?

maybe waitings a loops are not needed at all and someone might suggest better design.

Hi Vadim,

The work that I have done so far was based on information from your website.  Topic "Wait for Item Change".  I have learned a lot from your web seminars.  I was trying to log on to your website so that I could ask you questions but was unsuccessful.   I attempted to log on from 2 accounts 1 from my work and a personal account.  In both instances the website was suppose to send me a link so I could log on.  I never received the link and was unable thus not able to log on.   I will review you suggestion and may have additional question.  Thank you for responding to my post.

Viola

Hi Viola,

I've been away and haven't had a chance to approve new users no my site.  You should be good now.

Vadim

Hi Vadim,

I just reviewed the "what's changed" video.  I used the "wait for item change (snippet)" in my workflow.  I tested the program and it does exactly what I want.  The "wait for item change(snippet)" has an Action set and then it goes into a loop.  I only want that snippet of code to run only if the column are f1, f2, f 3 or f4 and the file is modified.  What someone had suggested I do is add a workflow set the workflow setting to execute on modified.  What I want to make sure is that it only execute the snippet of code  only if those four column changed.  Let's say that I have 10 columns.  If column f5 is modified I don't want the code to activate. 

Viola