One WF or Two? Clone Current Item, then Edit New Item

C
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Hi:

I have two WFs that do the following:

  1. Current Item - When Modified - copy item to the same list (becomes a New Item*)
  2. New Item* - When Created - Set (specific) Field Value to blank

Questions:

Can I compile these into one WF?

What's the fastest/best way to acccomplish this?

 

Thank you!

Charlie

3 replies

SimonMuntz
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Hi,

 

I would use one workflow.

Instead of a copy item action I would use a create item action.

The reason for this is that the later allows you to capture the item ID of the new item.

You can then use an Update item action to find the new item using the item ID and clear the column you need to clear.

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C
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So, I can see what Create Item does vs. Copy Item, but I really need to clone an item into the same List.

I need to delete a value in a column in the new (Created) Item but hopefully not trigger a Modify workflow.
How can I do this all in one step so that the only trigger upon creation, not modification?
Thanks-

SimonMuntz
Userlevel 6
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Hi,
Basically when you are copying an item you are creating an item right.
If you need a column to be cleared when creating the new item just dont populate that column to start with. No workflow will triger on modify then.
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