Supervisor to modify custom field & Workflow that triggers off that change - It's not working, and looking for suggestions

And I just heard that this is not possible.

You can do this. I did this 2 weeks ago for a client. I achieved it by the following:

1. Creating a custom field, mine was called ‘workflow step’ on my form. In my example I was going from step 1 to step 2.
2. Create a supervisor rule that modified the workflow step to change from step 1 to step 2 based on a rule. **One thing which may be hanging you up is knowing that supervisor rules run each hour.** 
3. Create a workflow where the event trigger is ‘workflow step’ updated from any to step 2.

Give this a try.

Dustin

Dustin,

Great minds think alike.  I did this, and the supervisor kicked off, but the workflow never triggered. I wonder why this worked for you, but failed when I did it. I watched the supervisor change the field, but the workflow never was kicked off.

I ended up using Microsoft flow to trigger this, which is not ideal.