For example, consider a purchase order that moves through various departments for authorization and eventual purchase. To implement simple workflow in Alfresco, you will create spaces for each department and allow documents to move through various department spaces. Each department space is secured allowing only users of that department to edit the document and to move it to the next departmental space in the workflow process.
The workflow process is so flexible that you could introduce new steps for approval into the operation without changing any code.
The simple workflow is implemented as an aspect that could be attached to any document in space through a business rule. Workflow can also be invoked on individual content items as actions.
Workflow has two steps—one for approval and one for rejection. You can refer to the screenshot on the next page where workflow is defined for the documents in a space called Review Space. Users belonging to the Review...