I'm trying very hard to find a question here...

How do I get it to update  the row  that activated the workflow?

I think we need a bigger picture. Are you in an event handler? Which row  are you
updating versus which row are you hoping to update? Are you really trying to
update the 6th item? 5th? What...?

This code is running in a custom activity that has been added to a workflow  in
SPD. I need to update  the row  that was just created, and in turn activated the
workflow.

SPListItem oListItem = selectedList.Items[5];
item 5, 0 based array, 6th in our 1 based mind :)
he needs to replace that 5 with something like workflow.selected (no clue what
so ever as to what it really is)
but thats the question anyways

What about "Workflow item  id?" Create a list  item ID variable and stuff it
with the Workflow Item ID of any of the list items that are created from the
original list item.

Maybe I need to explain some more. I have an InfoPath form that posts one
row/record to a SP2007 list  (doc lib actually). When the form posts to the
list, I want to run a workflow. I need to be able to update  a column in that row
depending on the value of other columns in that row.

Does that help?

I must be misunderstanding...can you post more info?

Yes, you are not understanding. I am building a custom action to use in SPD. I
need to dynamically check fields, increment a counter, then post the counter
value back into another list  field.

I have no experience with SPD custom activities...

Wouldn't it be simpler/easier/better to do all of this in InfoPath itself
before posting to the list?

I tried that, but couldn't get it all to work together.

Looks like I can use SPContext.Current to get the listItem that kicked off the
workflow. Now to figure out the syntax!

Found this thread on a forum. Thought it might have some pertinent stuff.

wss3workflow.codeplex.com/.../View.aspx

I can currently do everything I need to do in SPD. For example
I have a list  with 50 fields or so. I can go through them and the pseudocode for
each field looks like this.

if field_name = 1

'increment score
set wf variable to currentitem:score
increment wf variable by 1
set currentitem:score = wf variable

'increment counter
set wf variable to currentitem:counter
increment wf variable by 1
set currentitem:counter = wf variable

else field_name=0

'increment counter
set wf variable to currentitem:counter
increment wf variable by 1
set currentitem:counter = wf variable


I want to be able to do something like this, just to save time


if field_name = 1

MyCustom activity to increment score and counter

else field_name = 0

MyCustom activity to increment counter


Or better yet a custom action that iterates through the fields and then sets the
score and counter at the end! That would be the best solution.