I have several subpanels coming from a main panel called Course, can I set up workflows so when a field in a subpanel called Assessment course status (dropdown) is changed from Assessment to Results, it will on Save change the Field in the main panel called Course status from Assessment to Results. there is a workflow already set up on the Course main panel that creates the subpanels when it is modified to the name of each subpanel. So I want to set up a workflow that operates in a subpanel to change the mainpanel so the workflow in the main panel can the create the next subpanel record. Is this possible
Workflows don’t operate on the UI level. A Workflow never updates a screen - it might update data, but then you’d have to refresh the screen to see the result.
So, “translating” your question to these terms, you probably want to see if you can go and change something on a record related to the one where some change occurred. That’s what the subpanels are - a display of a list of related records.
So the answer is “sometimes” - sometimes you can start from one record and reach a related one, sometimes not, it depends on the peculiarities of the relationship. Normally what I do is go play with the options in the Workflow screen, until I find what I need - or not.
Logic hooks provide more control and more possibilities, but they require the ability to code bits of PHP.