SPD Workflow executing twice on Wait for field change

I have a workflow where I have a Wait for field change action. Once the field is changed it sends an email. But it also goes back through the whole workflow again. So it sends 2 emails. How do I correct?
The workflow is set to run on item created and item changed.

I'm not sure wait for field change will work. This action requires you to wait until it equals a specific value, rather than just for the field to change. So if you want approve or deny, this won't work because you can only wait for it to be approved or
wait for it to be denied, not both. Basically, just as you say.
I would just have stages ("Awaiting Department 1", "Awaiting Department 2", etc) that is a hidden choice field set by the workflow. Choice fields then for each department for their approval. Conditions on the workflow fire based on the Awaiting Department
field.
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Hi All,
I am just starting to experiment with sharepoint 2013 (in office365) workflows and am running into an issue.
What I am trying to create is a sort of approval workflow in which multiple people need to approve the item. I created a column for each department that needs to approve the item and the default value for the column is 'awaiting approval'.
So the first department gets an email that they need to approve or deny the item. I want the workflow to wait for the value 'awaiting approval' gets changed and if it changes to deny stop the workflow, else go to the next department.
The problem is that 'wait for field change' does not seem to do the trick. I can tell it to wait for the field to change to approved, but if it is denied it won't go further to the denied state.
I guess there is a trick for this but I can't find it. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Eddy

I'm not sure wait for field change will work. This action requires you to wait until it equals a specific value, rather than just for the field to change. So if you want approve or deny, this won't work because you can only wait for it to be approved or
wait for it to be denied, not both. Basically, just as you say.
I would just have stages ("Awaiting Department 1", "Awaiting Department 2", etc) that is a hidden choice field set by the workflow. Choice fields then for each department for their approval. Conditions on the workflow fire based on the Awaiting Department
field.
Andy Wessendorf SharePoint Developer II | Rackspace [email protected]

Change "to equal" to "to be greater than" in Wait for Field to equal Value"

In Sharepoint Designer 2010, in the workflow Action "Wait for Field to equal Value", I could change the "to equal" to "to be greater than". I can't find how to do this in SPD 2013.
Can someone please help?
Thank you!

Hi
PieterVanHeerden, is a big problem that gives us the change Microsoft . An option to mitigate this problem could be to use an additional workflow that runs whenever the item is updated . Workflow evaluate the condition that you need and when it is Ok, updates
the value of a field used as flag called eg " Control_Hora_Inicio_Completo " with " true " value.
In your current workflow you should modify the condition for the WorkflowF stops until the Control_Hora_Inicio_Completo field equal to " True " when it meets the Workflow continue and you're sure you have entered a value , whatever that is .
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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”.
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I am using Stand alone Workflow 2.6, In my workflow process
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Here user can pick other user, and add comment,
once submit for that Item key I am updating the workflow notification table so that paritcular issue ownership will be changed.
In my workflow process I created a lookup code called "Change Owner". On click of Change Owner it will call the Function
in workflow process which will call CHANGE_OWNER.CREATE, here
the workflow process supposed to wait and get the User to be
changed. BUT THE PROCESS IS NOT WAITING, IT JUST DISPLAYED THE
SCREEN AND CONTINUED THE WORKFLOW PROCESS. I WANT THE MY
WORKFLOW PROCESS TO BE ACT AS RE-ASSINGN BUTTON WHICH WILL WAIT
FOR THE USER INPUT.
HOW TO DO IT.
Thanks
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