Workflow that checks for or requires specific documents

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Good day all, 
 Wondering if anyone has a way to check that certain documents exist before a workflow can progress to the next state? For example, I want to check that two or more documents of different classes have been added into the M-Files vault (with a common piece of metadata such as "Order Number") before the user can move a workflow into the next state. 
 Long story short, we're trying to enforce a workflow that requires certain documents (sales agreements, service agreements, etc) to be present before our sales people can submit the order to our order desk. 
 Has anyone done this before? Or is there a solution or add-on that handles these kinds of rules? 
 Thanks!

Radu Moca · Accepted Answer

Well, as a fast response to this, you can create some property definitions for each need document and add them to the main project. 
 Then with managed properties, when you add a document in one of the needed class with a property def poiting to the main object, it will automatically fill the corresponding metadata on the main object. 
 After you create all the relationships, you can then add a post condition if property x,y,z (which pointing to the necessary document) are not empty, the main object will go further in the workflow.

Workflow that checks for or requires specific documents

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