Workflow
A Workflow refers to the operational aspect of a work procedure, which includes: how tasks are structured, who performs them, what their relative order is, how they are synchronized, how information flows to support the tasks, and how tasks are being tracked.
In Cascade Server, structured workflows can be created to control the creation of content and ensure that content goes through the appropriate approvals before being published to the web server.
Workflows in Cascade Server are completely customizable. There is no limit to the number of group and role combinations for users.
A workflow can have an unlimited number of reviewers. They cannot, however, all access the item at once. To avoid the confusion of creating multiple drafts of the same item, workflows progress from one person or group to the next in an organized, predefined manner. Once a workflow has been initiated, only an administrator can edit or cancel the process.
Workflows can be applied at the page or content block level by selecting the appropriate workflow at the time of creation or by editing the workflow selections to a specific page. For pages that are composed of multiple content regions, each region or block can have individual workflow options attached to it.
Because workflows are selected at creation from a set of administrator-defined options, users can be granted the option of bypassing workflow provided that this option has been included on the page or folder level.
