Working with Workflows

CQ5 encompasses several applications which 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, within CQ5, Web Content Management (CQ WCM) is key. This 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 CQ, then applied to the appropriate content pages.

This section covers using Workflows to:

  • create and edit a new workflow

  • start an instance of the workflow by applying it to a page of content

  • complete a step requiring user action

  • take additional actions on a workflow; for example, suspend, resume, terminate

  • monitor workflow instances

  • investigate the history of archived workflows (which have finished, or been terminated)

  • automatically launch workflows when nodes within the repository are modifed (for example, to load digital assets)

Authorization needed for working with Workflows

Actions on workflows can only be undertaken if:

  • you are working with the admin account

  • the account has been assigned to the default group workflow-users, which holds all the privileges necessary for your users to perform workflow actions.