Introduction

Workflow in Hippo CMS is completely integrated with content management. Workflow consists of workflow actions. A workflow action is an action that changes a document, folder or other node. A change in the content of the document obviously counts as a change, but a document may also be published, reviewed, created, deleted, moved, etc. Any change of state of the document (or folder) is done by a workflow action. You can customize what is part of the state of a document by adding properties to its document type.

Workflow actions may be automatically triggered by some state of a document or may be initiated by users or by external agents. Workflow actions may only be possible for documents in a particular state and may be forbidden for users that have no permission to perform that particular workflow action.

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