Looping in automation until counter reaches 0

[Ste404]

Hi all.

I have a workflow transition that transitions to itself.  There is a screen where an agent can enter in some details and then it creates an object in Assets.

I want to control how many times this happens before the loop basically stops and the issue transitions to another status.

So if there is a variable with 6, it will loop through 6 times and then break out, is there any sort of post function or something I can use on in the workflow to reduce the counter to 0 or something, yes I am confused with this one!

[Fabian Lim]

Hi @Ste404

For this one, I would use a custom field that is hidden that counts the number of times the transition is executed.  Essentially you will subtract 1 to it in the post-function of the transition that calls itself. You will have to figure out how the initial value is populated though.  

I hope this helps.

Fabian

[Ste404]

Can you do maths in the post function?!  will have to dig deeper in there, I thought I checked out the options for that.

[Fabian Lim]

You may have to look into some workflow plugins in the marketplace (e.g. JSU, JMWE, JWT) are the easy ones to setup.

Regards,

Fabian

[Ste404]

It is disappointing there is no Do Until type looping in automations, something that has a TONNE of use cases.