How a workflow can fail using 'Result of...'

Hi All

This is a tip in case you have a workflow that fails for no apparent reason.

In a workflow, if you use an action (stage 1 being for example ‘make a change to a thing’ or ‘create a thing’) WITH some conditions on the action itself, then any subsequent action in the workflow that refers to that action (using ‘result of stage 1…’) fails if the initial action fails.

It’s pretty obvious when using ‘create a thing’ but when using ‘make changes to a thing’ you might be tempted to think that the ‘thing’ was ‘known’ so all actions that refer to it would work - I was. It took me 30 odd minutes to figure it so hope this helps some.

cheers
Mark

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