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title: "Comala Document Control workflows"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/CDCCL/631177568/Comala%20Document%20Control%20workflows"
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> Macro (aura-html)

Comala Document Control includes several Comala workflows available on installation and subscription to the app in a Confluence Cloud site.

> Macro (children)

You can select and enable one of these workflows to be applied as a space workflow to all the pages and blog posts in a space in each [space document control dashboard](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDCCL/pages/630952034).

![cdcc_spacedocumentcontroldashboard_extract_bunldedworkflows_non_active.png](media://b06ccafb-5d1c-4780-8a02-0aec9cde1474)

> ℹ️ If there is no active space workflow in a space, a [workflow can be applied to each page](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDCCL/pages/629573904) in the space.

> 📝 <span style="color: #172b4d">Approvals, b</span>y default,<span style="color: #172b4d"> in the </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Draft**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> and the </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**In Approval**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> states </span>in the Quality Management System workflow <span style="color: #172b4d">require an e-signature for reviewers.</span>

| **Workflow** | **Workflow Description** |
| --- | --- |
| ### [Basic Approval Workflow](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDCCL/pages/630986093)<br>![image](media://1d4ab242-f9d0-40a4-90c4-d44f4d46b489) | The page or blog post is in one of three workflow states<br>- **Review**
- **Approved**
- **Rejected**<br>Users can be assigned to review and approve the content in the workflow<br>- **Review** state
- **Rejected** state<br>The applied workflow transitions to the **Approved** or **Rejected** state based on an approval of the page content.<br>Each time the **Approved** content is edited, the content state is reset to the **Review** state. |
| ### [Content Expiry Approval Workflow](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDCCL/pages/629608558)<br>![image](media://8fd3cb65-cff1-44e6-9e8a-59c6a05d5bcb) | The page or blog post is in one of four workflow states<br>- **Review**
- **Rejected**
- **Approved**
- **Expired**<br><span style="color: #172b4d">Users can be assigned to review and approve the content.</span><br><span style="color: #172b4d">A review is undertaken when the document is in the </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Review**</span><span style="color: #172b4d">, </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Rejected,**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> and </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Expired**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> state.</span><br><span style="color: #172b4d">Updating a page in the </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Expired**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> or </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Approved**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> state causes the workflow to transition to the </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Review**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> state.</span><br><span style="color: #172b4d">**Approved**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> state content expires after a set period of time. the workflow transitions to the </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Expired**</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> state to undertake a review to identify and update possible stale content.</span> |
| ### [Quality Management System (QMS) Workflow](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDCCL/pages/631177774)<br>![image](media://fa4b0f4a-11f5-47ca-ad44-dcd254840a25) | The page or blog post is in one of four workflow states.<br>- <span style="color: #000000">**Draft**</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**In Approval**</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Published**</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">**Obsolete**</span><br><span style="color: #172b4d">This workflow has greater flexibility to manage the review and approval of content</span><br>- <span style="color: #172b4d">users or groups of </span><span style="color: #172b4d">[users that are allowed to approve](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDCCL/pages/631177774)</span><span style="color: #172b4d"> can be restricted by adding users as a value for the workflow parameters used by the workflow to assign reviewers</span>
- an [e-signature process](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDCCL/pages/630985848) (user email and one-time password authorization) is set for each approval |