Moving folder with documents and starting a workflow

asked on March 14, 2017

I have a process that when a user is done reviewing documents in Folder1 they drag Folder1 (with the docs) into Folder2. Once Folder1 is dragged into Folder2 I want workflow to process the documents in Folder2 (And deleted the parent folder when empty).

I'm having no success with a workflow's starting rules to process the documents in Folder1 once it becomes a subfolder of Folder 2 . I can drop documents in Folder 2 and they process fine but when Folder1 is a subfolder in Folder 2 nothing happens to the documents in Folder1.

I have changed Entry : Path to "starts with", "is in" and "equals". Nothing works.

Help anyone? Thanks

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replied on March 14, 2017

Hello John,

The condition "Entry: Type equals Document" will prevent the starting rule from triggering on a folder. If you want the starting rule to just work on folders, then "Entry: Type equals Folder" will work.

Hope that helps!

Best Regards,

Winston Kao

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replied on March 14, 2017

Ok I made that changed and it did correct part of the issue - my starting rules are satisfied. Thanks

But now my invoke workflow that needs the template from each document in Folder 1 does nothing - docs don't move.

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replied on March 14, 2017

Since you are now starting the workflow one level higher, you'll need to get those documents with Find Entries and then use a For Each Entry activity to go through them and check their templates.

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