Chapter 5. Understanding Workflows
Welcome! In the previous chapter we finished laying the foundation of our Oracle Content Server expertise. Now let's build on it, to give you the tools you'll need in daily operations and administration. This chapter will fill you in on Content Server workflows.
Workflows are one of the most used and useful features of UCM. They give you the power to quickly set up reviews and approvals for documents, web pages, product documentation, "stage gates" for project management artifacts, "virtual voting" on government legislation, gathering digital signatures, and SOX compliance reviews.
This chapter covers things you'd be doing most of the time as well as other important things you ought to know about workflows. More specifically you will learn:
How to set up and change Content Server workflows—allowing you to get up to speed really fast, walking you step by step through an automation of a real-world approval process.
Hidden (and frequently overlooked) facts about...