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  Workflow Question (2 posts)

• mark doran said 7 months, 1 week ago:

  Hello Everybody,

  I'm trying to create a simple workflow in SPD2010 that once an item is added to a list the workflow will 1) send an email to a controller telling them that a new document requries a new document reference ID 2) using the collect data action, get the user to enter this document reference ID (12 char String) 3) take this reference and append it to the start of the document's title 4) email the person that orginally made the request that their document has a new document referenece ID.

  The problem that I have is at step 3; I can get the reference ID ok (it displays in the workflow task list), but I can't find a way to take this value and append it to the beginning of the document title in the list that the workflow is linked to. Instead, the output from the collect data action (List Item ID) is used instead so I get something like '1 Big Ben' instead of AAA-AAA-1000 Big Ben'.

  Would appreciate any suggestions on how to get this simple workflow up and running!
  Regards
  Mark

• Kevin Pine said 6 months, 2 weeks ago:

  The "1" is indeed a list item ID. It is the ID of the task in the task list that contains the new document reference number. You need to do a look-up to the task list, to the column containing the document reference number where the ID is equal to the list ID returned in the collect data action ("1" in your example). That is the answer given in the collect data question.

  Make sense?