19.1 Designing Custom Workflows
It is essential to design your workflows well before jumping off to creating them. Understand the need for workflows from your business (end) users. Understand how many levels of review they need and what actions need to be formed on content by which groups/users before publishing the content to a running website.
We will take a simple example in this chapter and create a workflow with the activities/tasks mentioned below. (Make sure that you customize/extend this sample workflow as per your business requirements by removing/altering existing activities or adding some more activities if need be.)
1. Content created by content authors will be submitted to the workflow.
2. The system automatically promotes the content to the Staging lifecycle state at this point.
3. Content (in the form of workflow tasks) reaches the Inboxes of all content manager group users for a round of review.
4. The first content manager user to acquire the workflow task gets to review it...
