When I am viewing my workflow action logs i keep seeing a ton of these errors/warnings on alot of the actions. Does anyone know what this means? It ends up just skipping that action "Value cannot be set in BEFORELOAD on already existing (not a new) record."

exactly what it says on the tin.

But it is creating the transaction at this time. It's like it's making the transaction first, then trying to load the transaction and run the workflow or something

it looks like this is happening on VIEW?

Yeah, that's whats throwing me off, like the WF actions are not getting triggered when the record is getting created, but then they are being triggered when I go to view the record that was just created and it's throwing this error.

I have the same issue. I still don't get it although the article seems to suggest that it's a limitation. But, when we have an approval workflow where the Approval Status and Next Approver fields have Set Field Value actions when a button is clicked and is triggered after the record is created, it is working. But why can't I Set Field Value in other cases like when I have a saved search condition that triggers the Set Field Value action?