Okay I'm grasping at straws
What is wrong with the following workflow - I obviously just don't grok how this works...
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step 1
email someone there is a new item in list
wait for currentitem:status (a read only form field that was promoted) not to equal "pending"
step 2
if currentitem:status equal to "finalized"
email workflow initiator - "was finalized"
step 3
if currentitem:status equal to "rejected"email workflow initiator - "was rejected"
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but it EMAILS the "new" email , on EVERY submit to the library - even though they are updates/resbutmits (with allow overwrite)
if I put a "if currentitem:status equal to "pending"
then it only fires that "new" email once, but the other steps aren't running...?
ASIDE: (if you tell me that I should be using an approval task, then riddle me this:
a) how do you trigger something that "completes" the task from INFOPATH
b) how do you block or route the "Open this task" thing in SP or Outlook to the INFOPATH form (as there is lots of fields I need filled in not just "approve/reject" - I had a long look and I couldn't figure it out (if you can even do it
with a form lib