Hi Jason,

The parent folder won't contain any documents. It just contains subfolders that contain the documents. Below is my current folder structure. The documents will be either moved from the Returned Mail subfolders or deleted. 

If you don't need to worry about nested folders, then you could do it all in one workflow.

Just do the following

• Find Entries to grab all the folders in the starting entry
• For Each Entry to loop through each one
  • Find Entries to get the documents in the Current Folder/Entry
    • For Each Entry on each document
    • Move your document
  • Delete Entry (Current Folder/Entry set to only delete empty folders)

Basically, you look through each folder, have a nested loop for each document, at the end of the first loop (after the second loop for the documents is complete), you attempt to delete the current folder.

Sorry, I must be missing something. Find entries doesn't look through subfolders? That's why I had to go with search repository. I need it to look through the returned mail folder and subfolders only.

That's the point of the nested For Each Entry loop. The Find Entries gets the folders in the starting folder.

Then the second loop is within the first loop and uses the "ForEachEntry_CurrentEntry" to search the contents of each folder you found with the first Find Entries.

Like so,

Find Entries on its own will not search subfolders, but when you nest them in a loop you can create a recursive process that will.

The problem with using a Search activity is that it returns the results kind of like a "flat" collection so you have to do a lot more work to identify the empty parent folders.

The workflow is getting stuck at the conditional routing. It's not picking up the documents in the 2nd find entries even tho i selected documents. I'm sorry, I'm still new to workflow.

The configuration is wrong on the second Find Entries. You have it set to Find Entries "In the same folder as the entry"

But it should be set to "In the folder" as seen in my screenshot.

It was originally set to "in the folder", but when that didn't work i changed it to "In the same folder as the entry" I switched it back and its still stuck on the conditional routing part.

What are the settings for your For Each Entry and For Each Entry 2 activities? I know this configuration works because I've used it in several workflows.

Thanks!

Mui,

The Delete Entry activity should not be inside of the second loop; I'm not sure I understand the point of the conditional branch because it would be acting on the folder repeatedly for every document, and it would still fail because the last document to be moved would occur in parallel.

Instead of the conditional branch, set it up like my example where the delete occurs after For Each Entry 2, but inside of For Each Entry, and acts on the Current Entry for the first loop.