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Rob Nunley
Feb 28, 2019Brass Contributor
Sharepoint Workflow
My organization has a department with six divisions. I am creating a form in Infopath, also a workflow in SPD, that would request information from the department. Not all request will include all d...
- Feb 28, 2019
That's the way we do it in SharePoint 13. It makes it less cumbersome if you could add your divisions into a single multicheck field, and make the hidden field a regular text field.
Then you could do a compare like this:
If HiddenField is not equal to (divisionField, as String)
if DivisionField contains 'Division 1'
and HiddenField not contains 'Division 1'
... then you know the division 1 field was just checked and do the div 1 email
and then save the division fields as string into the hiddenfieldIf the divisions are different checkboxes, you'd have to have a hidden checkbox for each one and test them all separately...
Robin Nilsson
Feb 28, 2019Bronze Contributor
That's the way we do it in SharePoint 13. It makes it less cumbersome if you could add your divisions into a single multicheck field, and make the hidden field a regular text field.
Then you could do a compare like this:
If HiddenField is not equal to (divisionField, as String)
if DivisionField contains 'Division 1'
and HiddenField not contains 'Division 1'
... then you know the division 1 field was just checked and do the div 1 email
and then save the division fields as string into the hiddenfieldIf the divisions are different checkboxes, you'd have to have a hidden checkbox for each one and test them all separately...
Rob Nunley
Mar 01, 2019Brass Contributor
Thanks Robin! I think that will to the trick.