It is handy to be able to check the previous state of the node in Rules as well as the current state.

I will attach a patch to add a new Rules condition for checking the previous Workflow state.

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#1 workflow-workflow_rules_previous_state-1996892-1.patch1.83 KBkristen pol

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Patch is attached

(Updating attribution on November 23, 2015.)

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Thanks, Kristen. Is it not sufficient to check the transition from "state A" to "state B"?

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In our case, there are times when we only want to know the previous state and actually don't care what state it is currently. :)

[Update] I'm realizing that maybe my issue summary wasn't clear as it does sounds like I wanted to check the previous and current states at the same time.

Another useful scenario: you want to negate the previous state check... e.g. previous state was not xyz.

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Status: Needs review » Fixed

Committed with attribution.

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Thanks!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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hi
sorry for re-opening this long time discussion

But i am looking in rules for having an action like "Go back to the previous State" without needs to know which state it was / without specify that state in the list of state.

The goal is that we want to have (n addition to state) radio button of Accepted / rejected.

-If accepted, action : Go to next state (already exist with workflow_rules)
- if reject , action : Go back to previous state (what i am looking for)

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Look at the code in the Workflow Revert sub-module.