What is a workflow?

[Community_Admin]

What is a workflow?

[smacdonald2008]

As part of setting up the new Digital Marketing communities, we wanted to ensure that common questions such as "What is a Workflow?" were addressed in these forums. Although this topic can be found in the AEM docs, for the convenience of users looking for this type of information in the forums, we placed Q/A type of information in the forums. Thank you for your suggestion.

[andyshreve]

Thank you Community Administrator for your speedy reply! However, your original question strikes me as misplaced. In my humble opinion, this type of pre-made question & response would be better suited as a help article in the AEM help section.

[Community_Admin · Accepted solution]

Adobe Experience Manager encompasses several applications that are designed to interact and complement each other. In particular, the Workflow engine can be used in tight conjunction with several of the other applications. For example, a key application of AEM is Web Content Management (WCM), which enables you to generate and publish pages to your website. This functionality is often subject to organizational processes, including steps such as approval and sign-off by various participants. These processes can be represented as workflows, which in turn can be defined within AEM, then applied to the appropriate content pages.

Workflows are at the center of how form submissions are typically processed. When creating a new form, the form submission can be easily associated with a workflow model, for example to store the content in a particular location of the repository or to notify a user about the form submission and its content.

For more information, see Workflow Overview.