Workflow
Ensemble workflow are used to get content approved before publishing. Workflow are supported but rarely used for publishers and web admins, but required for all author role users.
Starting a workflow
Any user role can start a workflow from the page information selector of any open or newly created page.
![Workflow start from page information selector](/content/ensemble_cms_vt_edu/en/docs/workflow/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_741945512/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Clicking the Start workflow option will open a dialog.
![Workflow dialog](/content/ensemble_cms_vt_edu/en/docs/workflow/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_1151169612/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
From the Select a Workflow Model pulldown, select the desired publish or unpublish workflow for the page.
![Workflow model choice to publish or unpublish](/content/ensemble_cms_vt_edu/en/docs/workflow/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_1761650361/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Type a descriptive title into the text field and then click the Start Workflow button.
![Workflow title](/content/ensemble_cms_vt_edu/en/docs/workflow/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_1/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Once a page is assigned to a workflow, a banner will appear below the edit toolbar when a page is open, and...
![Page edit workflow indicator](/content/ensemble_cms_vt_edu/en/docs/workflow/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_1_741797013/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Moving an item through the workflow
When a page is ready to publish site publishers and web admins will receive notification when a workflow is pending for review and approval. In the upper-right of the screen, a notification will appear as a badge on the notification icon in the eyebrow menu.
![Workflow inbox notification](/content/ensemble_cms_vt_edu/en/docs/workflow/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_989472764/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Clicking the notification icon shows you the page(s) for review.
Click on a page to review it, or click on “View all” in the notifications menu. All items in the queue for publishing will appear.
![Workflow inbox item selector](/content/ensemble_cms_vt_edu/en/docs/workflow/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
Select the item(s) for publishing and click the View Payload button to see the changed or newly created page.
![Workflow inbox with one item selected](/content/ensemble_cms_vt_edu/en/docs/workflow/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_1432083728/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)
After reviewing and/or additionally updating the page content, you can either click Step Back to revert the document to a previously published version, or click Complete to send the document to the publishing queue from the options below the edit interface toolbar for the page.
![Workflow view payload to edit and/or approve](/content/ensemble_cms_vt_edu/en/docs/workflow/_jcr_content/content/vtmulticolumn_copy_789780984/vt-items_1/adaptiveimage.transform/m-medium/image.jpg)