Workflow condition step returns wrong value

[Jackson, Sarah A]

Hi,
 
I am working with version 46b and am working on a workflow to do the
following - when an external applicant is created and a reference employee
is available, a mail notification should be sent to that reference employee.
The object type 'applicant' did not contain the attributes reference
employee available or reference employee, therefore I have created a subtype
and assigned those attributes to it. This all seems to be working fine. In
the workflow, the first step is a condition step that says if applicant is
external and reference employee is available, send mail notification. (if
Applicant.Internal External = 'AP' and Applicant.Reference Available = 'X',
send mail) If false, workflow ends. I have set up the condition, but when I
try to test the workflow, the condition step always returns the value false
and terminates immediately. I have created a number of applicants who are
external and do have reference employees yet still get return value false. I
have tried testing the condition step with just the applicant number as the
condition, and then using that applicant, yet still get the value false. Any
ideas on this would be greatly appreciated!
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Sarah Jackson