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I would like to have a field automatically be populated with something I define in a workflow. Currently I have the workflow running upon record creation, however the field is only populated AFTER the user saves the record for the first time.
How can I use a workflow to populate that field before the user saves the form?
You can’t. Workflows function on the server-side, but you’re asking about populating a client-side field before the server is contacted. Moreover, workflows are triggered asynchronously, which by definition means the record has to be created in advance.
You’ll need to either attach a JavaScript function to the
OnSaveevent, or trigger the population of the field in a pre-validation or pre-operation .NET plugin. I suppose you could use a Dialog as well, but that would require user input. See the below links for more detail on the differences between plugins, workflows, and dialogs.