Adding conditional decisions to a workflow
Sometimes you want to have a workflow act one way, sometimes in another way. Usually, this is because of the value of a field in the record. Maybe you want one person to approve a step, unless the dollar value is above a certain amount, in which case it goes to another.
You can do this by using the Conditional decision element to create routes through the workflow.
In this recipe, we will show how you can use this element to create multiple workflow processes within one.
How to do it...
To add a conditional decision to a workflow, follow these steps:
Open your workflow in design mode, and from the Workflow elements palette, select the Conditional decision element and drop it onto your workflow.
Re-link the workflow process so that the Conditional decision 1 element is a step in the workflow process.
Select the Conditional decision 1 node so that the Basic Settings button shows up in the Workflow ribbon bar within the Modify elements group. Then, click...
