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title: "Transitions"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/CDALS/649823478/Transitions"
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> Macro (aura-html)

## Overview

Transitions are the change of the approval workflow state from a source state to a destination state.

![image](media://c3db4bc2-0f0c-4346-baf6-32ad60cd3ed6)

There can be one or possible transitions from a state. A transition from a state can occur due to

- approval of the content
- rejection of the content
- an update of the content
- expiry of the content

The transitions available are different in each of the approval workflow state.

### **Review state**

The Review state is the initial state for the approval workflow.

In the **Review** state the content can undergo one of two transitions:

![image](media://e6fb4381-f108-4f02-83cc-9f2dd800d477)

On the content, the approval workflow popup displays the option buttons for a reviewer to **Approve** or **Reject** the content.

![image](media://6e5e071c-cc4d-4c8c-b056-fc2fa7529171)

An approval transition from the **Review** state is based on the user content review decision.

- **Approve** - transition to the **Approved** state
- **Reject** - transition to the **Rejected** state

If more than reviewer is assigned all reviewers must agree for the transition to occur.

### **Approved state**

The **Approved** state is the final or published state after the content has been approved.

In the published **Approved** state, if the content is edited and saved, the page will move to the draft state **Review**.

![image](media://0df0a791-a294-4654-bcc4-7ce94dd616ca)

On the content the approval workflow popup displays a message confirming the document has gone through an approval process.

There are no workflow popup options for a user to undertake an action to cause a transition.

![image](media://fe7340af-2cf4-4953-a280-af5b00eea841)

However if a user has manually added an expiry date for the content, a transition will also occur if this date occurs whilst the content remains in the **Approved** state.

![image](media://37176f84-6931-4f76-bea0-611ef1392a88)

A transition will occur if the content is updated or if the content has an expiry date added and this date occurs.

- **Update content** - transition to the **Review** state
- **Expired content **-transition to the **Review** state

### **Rejected state**

Pages or blogs in the **Rejected** can be approved, and the page will transition to the **Approved** state. If the content is edited, the Comala Document Approval workflow will transition the page or blog to the **Review** state:

![image](media://bf641ca2-7543-49bc-b86f-51bb04fa23ce)

  
On the content, the approval workflow popup displays the option buttons for a reviewer to **Approve** or **Reject** the content.

![image](media://ac13ae6c-e2e3-4a0c-9ce4-b4595d8ebdda)

The approval transition from the **Rejected** state is based on the user approve decision or an update of the content

- **Approve** - transition to the **Approved** state
- **Update content** - transition to the **Review** state

The content whilst in the **Rejected** state can also be rejected by a reviewer. However there will be no transition for this content review decision. The content will remain in the **Rejected** state, but the reject action adds the reviewer avatar and rejection decision to the workflow popup.

![image](media://09f5e1b4-a7b6-4e03-afa4-7e19566ec034)

The reject decision is also recorded for the page in the [page activity report](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649101786).

> ℹ️ From **Comala Document Approval 2.0**+ for the data center, in spaces using document activity, workflow events, and actions for a page are recorded in the [document activity report](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649724466).

> 📝 **View-only** users will not be able to view the workflow byline or the workflow state dialog box. If a user is assigned as a reviewer, they must have view and edit permission to approve the document.

## Related pages

- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649560387](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649560387)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649920854](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649920854)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649888138](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649888138)