Workflow - Wait for field change

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]

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