Enabling the EPiServer CMS Workflows

EPiServer CMS 5 ships with four out of the box workflows; Parallel Approval, Sequential Approval, Ready for Translation, and Request for Feedback.

The workflows are disabled by default and can easily be enabled for a CMS site by un-commenting their definitions in web.config.

If the workflows have not been enabled yet, you will see a “There are no instances or tasks related to this page available” message on the “Workflow” tab and a “There are no workflow definitions available” message in the Action Window in Edit Mode.

To enable the workflows…

Open web.config and uncomment the following snippet under configuration/episerver/workflowSettings/definitions:

<!--
      <definition
        name="Sequential Approval"
        description="A sequential approval workflow for pages"
        type="EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.Workflows.SequentialApproval,EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation"/>
      <definition
        name="Parallel Approval"
        description="A paralell approval workflow for pages"
        type="EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.Workflows.ParallelApproval,EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation"/>
      <definition
        name="Request for feedback"
        description="Assigns request for feedback tasks to users/roles"
        type="EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.Workflows.RequestForFeedback,EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation"/>
      <definition
        name="Ready for translation"
        description="Assigns translation tasks to users/roles"
        type="EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.Workflows.ReadyForTranslation,EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation"/>
-->

Once enabled, the EPiServer workflows can be started from the “Workflow” tab or the “Action Window” in Edit Mode.