It sounds like you're getting both documents and folders in your search results. But it's hard to guess what might be the cause without seeing the workflow. Could you add some screenshots of your activities and their properties?

Sure! Thanks for your help on this 

Here is the workflow itself. Basically we are scanning a document into one specific location. The first search locates docs in that location and performs the rest of the workflow for each entry.

First it retrieves the Employee ID from the found entry in the first search.

Second, it searches within a specific location in our repository for folders or documents that have the same employee ID. We have it set to return the first result, which should be the main employee folder. 

Here are the properties for that search:

Next we are retrieving field values from the folder found in the 2nd search.

Then we are routing the entry to the first result path and applying the retrieved field values to the new entry.

We are getting a lot of different results for path though. I was assuming that the first path would find the employee's main folder before it found sub-folders.

It does appear to sometimes be finding documents within the employee folder and considering this the first path. If I delete the Employee ID from those documents, it will route to the correct location.

Your search is looking through all the entries (folders and documents) under \Active. So you're getting the employee folder and all its documents. The order is non-deterministic, so your first result could be the employee folder or it could be one of the documents. If it's the folder, then the entry path ends with \Department. If it's a document, then entry path contains the employee folder too.

If you add a &{LF:Name="*", Type="F"} criterion to your search, it will return only folders.

Side question, though, why are you doing this as a search for new documents instead of using a starting rule for document creation? It's not going to be very efficient for large numbers of documents.

I do have a starting rule set up for document creation, I just have it disabled right now since docs were landing all over the place 

I'll try the addition you suggested and post back.

Thanks!

Hm, but if you're running on document creation, you don't need the first Search Repository and For Each Entry activities...

True, I guess I was overthinking it during creation, but can drop that out.

I added  your criterion to the search and ran a test doc again.

Instead of going to the employee's folder, it dropped the entry into the department folder creating a new folder.

First result name is correct...that is the employee I'm looking for.

But shouldn't the first result path have \Employee's Name?

Instead that's in the full-path.

Here you can see that it routed to the Sheriff's Office folder and there it created a new folder titled Benefits, where it dropped the entry.