Work with Topic workflows

After you create a workflow to manage content development in a workflow, you can update the Due Date, track the workflow's progress, review notes left by users when completing a task, and see a graphical representation of the workflow's progress.

The options available to you when managing a Topic workflow are different from the options you have when managing a Sequential Reviewer workflow.

• Reviewing notes and seeing a graphical representation of the workflow's progress is only available for Topic workflows.
• You can only add a reviewer to a Sequential Reviewer workflow.

Tips and tricks

• Snapshots. After you start the workflow, Inspire captures a snapshot of all components included in an assignment each time a workflow activity is completed.

  

  This snapshot is labeled with the following information:

  • Action = On Demand
  • (Process) Type = CompleteAssignment
  • Comment = Project Name/Workflow Name/Assignment Name
• Update the workflow name after starting it. You can now edit and save a workflow's name on the Update Workflow screen, making it easier to correct naming errors and keep workflow records accurate without recreating workflows. Follow the steps in: Update a topic workflow.

  Important notes:

  • Renaming a workflow does not cancel, restart, or otherwise interrupt the workflow.
  • Existing task progress, task history, and workflow state remain unchanged when the workflow name is updated