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     3 Defining a Workflow

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     6 General

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     9 A workflow can be defined in a `LAX` application thanks to the system 

    10 entities ``State`` and ``Transition``. Those are defined within all 

    11 LAX application and can be set-up through the main administrator interface.

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    13 Once your schema is defined, you can start creating the set of states and

    14 the required transitions for your applications entities.

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    16 You first need to define the states and then the transitions between those

    17 to complete your workflow.

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    19 A ``State`` defines the status of an entity. While creating a new state, 

    20 you will be first given the option to select the entity type the state

    21 can be applied to. By choosing ``Apply``, a new section will be displayed

    22 in the editing screen to enable you to add relation to the state you are

    23 creating.

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    25 A ``Transition`` is also based on an entity type it can be applied to.

    26 By choosing ``Apply``, a new section will be displayed in the editing 

    27 screen to enable you to add relation to the transition you are

    28 creating.

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    30 At the transition level you will also define the group of user which can

    31 aplly this transition to an object.

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    34 Example of a simple workflow

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    37 Please see the tutorial to view and example of a simple workflow.

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    40 [Create a simple workflow for BlogDemo, to have a moderator approve new blog 

    41 entry to be published. This implies, specify a dedicated group of blog

    42 moderator as well as hide the view of a blog entry to the user until

    43 it reaches the state published]