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I am looking for the same answer. I have workflow that creates a series of tasks for an item in a custom list.
The first task is used solely for the "Claim Task" function. I do this because the task is initially assigned to a group. Once the task is claimed AND completed by a person, the workflow adds the person who claimed the task to a person field on the
original item.
The problem is that I have received several complaints about the need to go back into that first task and mark it complete after it has already been claimed. Otherwise, the workflow will not continue to the next task.
I thought I would have an easy solution for this since the task's status is automatically changed to "In Progress" by sharepoint when the task is claimed. I set up a workflow on the Tasks folder to execute on new instances of this "claim" task. The workflow
waits for the Status field to change to "In Progress", then changes Status to "Completed" and % Complete to 1.
The problem is that this Outcome field - which I see no way to access through SharePoint Designer's Workflow Designer - never changes to Completed. So the workflow on the original item never recognizes that the task has been completed.
Is there a way modify Outcome? Or is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do?