Starting a workflow from form manager

Hi,
I am trying to kick off a workflow by submitting a form present in the form manager repository. In my workflow, I am unable to set a workflow variable with any of my form fields data. The XPath Exression does not seem to work for me.
However, when I submit the same form from outside the form manager and try to fetch a form field data (using the same XPath Expression) I am able to fetch.
What may be the reason for this? Any help would be much appreciated. I can send you my form and the workflow file if required.
Thanks and regards,
Shivajiv.

Thanks for your help Jennifer. I got this sorted out. When a workflow is triggered from FM the xpath expression is a bit different -
It is like this - /process_data/[MyForm Variable Name]/form-data/data/xdp/datasets/data/fields/[my subform name]/NumericField1
instead of - /process_data/[MyForm Variable Name]/form-data/data/xdp/datasets/data/form1/[my subform name]/NumericField1 i.e. if there is no schema bound to the form that defines the structure of the data top level form node will be renamed to "fields"
Thanks and regards,
Shivajiv.

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