Ho w to create a field using workflow ?

how to create a field using workflow ?

Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to trigger a workflow only once when a item is updated.
If you want to set it programmatically, I suggest you can create a Yes/NO column called flag firstly with the default value No and set the workflow start option to manually start.
When updating the list item, you can create a ItemUpdated Event Receiver to track the update action, and in the event, you can judge the flag column value, if the value is No, then you can trigger the workflow programmatically and in the end of code set
the code to Yes ,if the value is Yes, then not trigger the workflow.
Here are some detailed code demos for your reference:
How to set and read value of Yes/No column programmatically?
How
to programmatically start sharepoint workflow
How to create an event receiver
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