I got an answer on this from HI. Seems the join doesn't work the way you would expect. It always goes down the incomplete path if one of the paths connected to it does not transition. Here is how they had me get around this. User create event with only giving it a name. Basically a dummy event that doesn't really do anything. Then have your catalog task that could get skipped go to the dummy event along with the if statement that bypasses the task. Then you would have the dummy event transition to your join. After the joint you have to do another if statement to determine if any of the tasks are closed incomplete so you can set the RITM to closed incomplete if you that is what you want to do. Below is a screenshot example of the workflow with the dummy event and the code for the IF statement if I mentioned above.
answer = ifScript();
function ifScript()
{
var task = new GlideRecord('sc_task');
task.addQuery('request_item', current.sys_id);
task.addQuery('state', '4');
task.query();
if(task.next())
{
return 'yes';
}
return 'no';
}
