Yes - I saw the article while looking for a work-around. Unfortunately, a scheduled task isn't my first choice & I felt the other suggestions were too involved to move the process beyond the status in this scenario.
I ended up modifying the process to the path below over the weekend & it seems to work ok now. While I would still prefer to have the automatic actions in place to push it through status if it passes certain conditions, this way works for now for the steps I need.
I'm not sure how an automatic status could possibly loop if there is no path to bring it back to that status in the workflow, but I guess it was changed for a reason & I'll just have to work around it.
