State Machine workflow if else branch

Question

I have a scenario that have 4 level of approvals on every approval if it is accepted it is coming to the requestor who submitted it i need to make a condition that
Approval level1=Supervisor
Approval level2=Dept Manager
Approval level3=VP
Approval Level4=HR committee
request is submitted by reguester a user
if requester reject the approval level 1 it should move to the target state 2 (Approval level2)
if requester reject the approval level 2 it should move to the target state 3(Approval level3)
if requester reject the approval level 3 it should move to the target state 4(Approval Level4)
i have a state for requestor where once the requester reject i have to move it to one target state
how can i acheeive above bold requirements?
MCTS,ITIL

Answer 1

This is easy to do if you are using Visual Studio to create your workflow.  Simply define each Approval level as a different state and evaluate what the target state should be at the end of each state.
But if you want to do this using SharePoint Designer then you should know that SPD only does sequential workflows, not state machine.  To do this kind of workflow in SPD most people break it into 5 workflows.  One main workflow and 4 separate workflows
for each stage.  Then at the end of each workflow decide which other workflow to start. 
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