In an approval workflow, how do I wait for either Approval or Reject to proceed?

I have a field that will get set to Approved or reject in the form. In the workflow I inserted the action "Wait for a field to change in current item". The program is it reads:
WAiT FOR "SOMEFIELD" TO EQUAL "VALUE"
the value could be "Approved" or "Reject". How can I set the wait till the value is changed to proceed to next action in the workflow?
Thank you.

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to create a workflow to wait for the filed changed and then proceed to next action.
As Matt
Milsark's Blog said,
in the SharePoint Designer 2013, the value of the action has to be equal to.
However, we cannot use parallel blocks to wait for the item to change.
When the column’s value of the List is “Approved” at the first and not changed, the workflow also will start and perform the next action.
The reason is that if we create an item which set the column value to “Approved”, the workflow will proceed to the Approved Step without any changes and then wait for the filed changed to Rejected.
As a workaround, we can use the “Stage” and the “Wait for Filed Change in Current Item” action.
You can follow the steps as below to implement it.
Create a Custom List > Create a Column with the type of “choose” > Set the Column’s value is “Approved” or “Rejected.
   Open the SharePoint Designer 2013 > Create a Workflow for this List > Add some conditions and actions
as below:
   3. Click “Save” to save the workflow.
   4. Go to the “Navigation” and click the “Workflows” > Open the new workflow > Go to “Start Options” > Check “Start workflow automatically when an item is created”.
   5. Click “Publish” to publish the workflow.
In addition, we can use the “Wait for Event in List Item” action to achieve what you want. Please create workflow as below:
Then if the “Approved” Column’s value of the current item is changed to “Approved”, the workflow will log “Approved Column changed to Approved”.
If the “Approved” Column’s value of the current item is changed to “Reject”, the workflow will log “Approved Column changed to Rejected”.
Best Regards,
Linda Li
Linda Li
TechNet Community Support

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