"get item data" on workflow just getting step 1, why?

[ThomCosta (Thomas Costa)]

Hi, I’m trying to use the “get item data” on workflow, however, it will only work for the first step. Could someone tell me what am I doing wrong?

It worked before on other workflows that I’ve created. But this one is pretty simple and it doesn’t work…

This is what I’m trying to do:

1. Buttom clicked
2. If Column X is empty, True = End, False = goes to 3
3. If Column Y is empty, True = End, False = goes to 4
4. Get Item Data from Step 1
5. Set Date, Column Z = Column Y
6. Push Date, Column Z - 1 day
   7. Get Item Data from Step 6 (here is where I’m hitting a wall, because it only allows me to get the data from Step 1 again, why???)
7. Change column value, Timeline (Timeline start = Column X, Timeline end = Column Z)

[ThomCosta (Thomas Costa)]

@monday.com do you have any idea why this is happening?

[DMalheiro (Diogo Malheiro)]

Hello @ThomCosta ,

Do you manage to solve this? Its happening the same to me.

KR.

[Tom-CXmonday (Tom)]

Hi @ThomCosta and @DMalheiro , Tom from monday here

The “get item data” action in workflow is based on it item’s ID. In the example Thomas provided, there is only one item, so that’s why you can choose the item ID from that one step only - but if you put the “get item data” block in the right place in the workflow, and set it up to pull the data from step 1, it will pull the data of the item from that step 1 that’s true to that stage in the workflow. Here is an example of how I set up a workflow on my end which helped me achieve the same goal as Thomas described