# Change the lifecycle stage through work flow

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-the-lifecycle-stage-through-work-flow/53267>\
**Category:** Lists, Lead Scoring & Workflows\
**Created:** [March 16, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-the-lifecycle-stage-through-work-flow/53267 "2022-03-16T11:17:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![SSingh62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SSingh62](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SSingh62)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-the-lifecycle-stage-through-work-flow/53267/1 "2022-03-16T11:17:35Z")

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Hi,

I have created a subscription form and connected to the workflow. There is a couple of problems I am facing in setting up a workflow in a more convenient way.  
1. Once the user fill the subscription box the lifecycle stage automatically becomes lead, but I want them to fall into the subscriber lifecycle stage. I tried but I didn’t find any way to change the lifecycle stage automatically when visitors fill out the subscriber form.  
2. If you see in the below image I set the workflow, first “clear contact property lifecycle stage” and then “assign a new lifecycle stage as a subscriber.”

 ![SSingh62_0-1647429368851.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/2X/6/6b92852b9c84f5461f2b3025f57898829f3c9f3e.png)

I know it’s not a convenient method to that. I also tried no to use “clear contact property lifecycle stage” action trigger and simply use “assign a new lifecycle stage as subscriber”, but I found there is no change in lifecycle stage form lead to subscriber. Can anyone help me how shall I do it without using clear the contact property action trigger.

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-the-lifecycle-stage-through-work-flow/53267/2 "2022-03-16T12:27:41Z")

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Hi @SSingh62,

If your goal is to mark the contact who submits this form as “Subscriber”, then this can be achieved with a hidden Lifecycle stage field, set to “Subscriber” as a default value: [Pass contact property values with hidden form fields](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/forms/pass-contact-property-values-with-hidden-form-fields)

This will override the usual rule that a [contact who submits a form is a “Lead”](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/contacts/use-lifecycle-stages)., see this test I just ran:

 ![](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/1/4/14d475e629f90d0e2468d83078b81aff0cf49392.png)

Regarding your second question, there might be other automatic HubSpot processes at play. Can you navigate to the contact record, hover your mouse over the _Lifecycle stage_ field in the left sidebar and click the _Details_ button?

![karstenkoehler_1-1647433641703.png](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/2X/a/aee0eaff74c18e5fce400eb44d88a2d4137760a4.png)

This will show you a history of the tools that updated this property’s value.

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions!

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**Author:** ![SSingh62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SSingh62](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SSingh62)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 4:53am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-the-lifecycle-stage-through-work-flow/53267/3 "2022-03-17T04:53:12Z")

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Thaks Karsten for taking this up.  
Can you share a video on how to do it, I tried but was not able to do it.

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-the-lifecycle-stage-through-work-flow/53267/4 "2022-03-17T05:38:04Z")

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Sure, @SSingh62, there you go:

![form.gif](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/6/2/62b842f74cde09a4ca567061e1e2e68fd0889d4f.gif)

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**Author:** ![SSingh62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SSingh62](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SSingh62)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-the-lifecycle-stage-through-work-flow/53267/5 "2022-03-17T08:49:38Z")

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Thanks, it worked.