Handling Multiple Approval Workflows

I have a scenario where documents need to be uploaded into SharePoint, triggering specific approval workflows depending on the destination of the uploaded document. I initially thought this could be done through one document library with a separate approval
workflow set for specific folders within this document library. It now appears there is no easy solution for accomplishing this within one document library and multiple sub-folders, as the sub-folders inherit all workflows from the parent document library.
As a SharePoint beginner I am unsure the best solution for this scenario. Should I be using something other then multiple document libraries to accomplish this task (this seems messy, thus why I tried to use one document library with multiple sub-folders)?
Thanks for the help in advance.

Hi Brian,
I think this can be handled multiple ways but here are the 2 that came to my mind first.
1. add a column to your doc lib that is a dropdown of all the sub folder names that they can upload to. Make it a required field so they need to fill it in on upload. then in your workflow you can lookup the value of that dropdown and write an if condition
based on the dropdown selection to determine which approval to start.
2. you might be able to use the substring functions that exist when building your workflow located under Action>Utility actions and then do a substring on the url path field to determine the subfolder that the doc was uploaded to.
I am sure there are other ways to accomplish this without multiple document libraries. You could probably also do a taxonomy (similar to the way I said to do the dropdown) it probably depends if you would find it useful to have a taxonomy on your files
Have fun! Let me know if this is useful and if you have any other questions, please let me know.
Alex

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