Creating a simple custom workflow event
Thursday 09 December 2010 8:01:18 am
Step 1 - What is a workflow?
There are two good descriptions of eZ Publish workflows here:
- http://doc.ez.no/eZ-Publish/Technical-manual/4.x/Concepts-and-basics/Workflows
- http://www.martinbauer.com/eZ-publish-Overview/Workflow
But in brief, eZ Publish workflow is a “system that allows you to create a process of functions with or without user intervention”. eZ Publish workflows consists of one or multiple events that can be organized into workflow groups. A workflow is initiated by a trigger. Workflows are very useful when you need to have something done when a node has been newly created or published: content approval process, auto-validation, auto-filtering of forbidden words, notification to social media services, you name it.