19.5 Summary

In this chapter we discussed how a workflow works in tandem with a lifecycle by defining business policies and laying down norms on how content moves through various lifecycle states, under what conditions, and who the participating users and groups are.

We designed a very simple workflow for our application, involving content authors, managers, and approvers as the participating entities.

We saw that a workflow template is created using the Workflow Manager tool. Each time the workflow is started using the workflow template, Documentum creates a new run-time instance for it.

Workflow templates consist of activities that are connected with flows. Packages are added to the flows so they can route content through the workflow.

We briefly discussed that workflow activities are of two kinds—manual and automatic. While manual activities are performed by groups or users, automatic activities are performed by the system.

Finally, through detailed steps we saw how to create the custom workflow...