We have a workflow that runs on a Document Set (SharePoint 2010), that iterates through each document in the document set and updates the status to “In Review”. I have another workflow that runs conditionally on each document when the Status is modified to = “In Review”.
We are experiencing some collision here, where the logs are indicating that recursive workflows are not permitted, saying that the workflow that modifies the status is still running when it’s trying to kick off the workflow that begins conditionally.
Is there a better way to do this? Because the second workflow runs on a conditional value, I would have expected the first workflow to be complete prior to the second workflow running, but it seems that’s not the case.
Essentially, the need is to be able to start one workflow on the document set that kicks off a separate workflow for each of the documents located within that document set. But, I need to wait for the first workflow to end prior to starting the second workflow. The Start Workflow action doesn’t seem to be a viable option because it would only start the workflow on the document set, I wouldn’t be able to start it on each of the documents.
Any assistance or ideas are appreciated!