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I have a list used for scheduling appointments. Each item in the list is an appointment date/time. Column A is a Number column indicating the total number of appointment slots, Column B is a calculated Lookup column that results in the total number of appointments that have been scheduled for that time. Finally, there's a Status column indicating whether or not the date/time is "Active" or "Full." A list item is "Active" when there are appointment slots available, and "Full" when there are none. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

Let's say there are 8 appointment slots available (Column A) on 10/12 at 9am and 3 appointments have been scheduled (Column B). I need a way to compare the value in Column B (3) to the value in Column A (8) and automatically set the Status of the item to "Full" once Column B reaches the limit set in Column A.

Can anyone share a way to get the value of the Lookup column (Column B) so that I can compare it to the value in Column A in a 2013 Workflow and set the Status accordingly?

I have tried having my current 2013 Workflow set a separate text field to the current item's Column B value to no avail. The text field is never set to the value in Column B.

Everything we have is on-prem, we don't have O365, so I don't have any of the newer functionality such as Microsoft Flows.

Thank you for any/all help.

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If I understood you right, I think you just need to add If condition to compare the value of Column A with the value of column B (Lookup field) in the current list items.

Simply,

  • Add IF condition.
  • In If condition, Set the first value to column A.
  • Set the second value of the lookup column (Column B) as shown below.

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Finally, use the "Set Field in Current Item" to set the status value if the condition is correct!

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Check also, Using Lookup Field in SharePoint Workflow

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  • Thank you for the reply Mohamed! I've actually reviewed that blog post of yours multiple times. I'll try to clarify. Column B is a Lookup field which is referencing the "Title" field of another list and counting the related items in that list. As a result, Column B is the total number of appointments scheduled for a date/time. When I try to have the workflow compare Column B to Column A (a number field manually set to the number of appointment slots available), it doesn't work as it never actually gets the value from Column B.
    – Andy-Wan
    Commented Dec 19, 2019 at 1:29

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