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The solution is to not use the updated parameter on the state macro, but instead use a trigger.
In order to prevent large numbers of notifications to page watchers, the Talk app marks its content updates as "Minor change" (the same as if you clear the "Notify Watchers" checkbox while editing a page). With triggers and conditions, we can filter out "Minor Change" events and then use an action to do the state transition.
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With the updated workflow, minor changes are ignored, but normal changes will still trigger the transition.
The isminorchange parameter is a workflow condition that can only be used in a pageupdated or newsupdated trigger with the StiltSoft Talk app.
App configuration
There is also a Document Management app setting which may be affected by the Talk app updating content...
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