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Creating an Account-Wide Custom Workflow

Table 7. Availability - Legacy plans


Availability: Legacy Business, Legacy Enterprise.; Unavailability: Legacy Free, Legacy Professional.;

Table 8. Availability


Availability: Business, Enterprise, Pinnacle. ; Unavailability: Free, Team;

Overview

Admins on Business and higher accounts can create account-wide custom workflows. On Enterprise and Pinnacle this is a controlled admin permission, so some admins may not have it. All users, except for Collaborators, Contributors, and Viewers, on these accounts can use custom workflows.

Account-wide custom workflows are visible to all users in the account and can be used as default workflows in any space and project-based items.

Tip

If the workflow you are about to create is to be used by one team only, we recommend creating it as a space workflow within the team's space. It will give you easy access to editing the workflow and such a workflow will be available for use only within the particular space.

Create a custom workflow

  1. Click your profile image 1 from the sidebar.

  2. Select Settings 2 from the dropdown menu.

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  3. Click Workflows 3 in the left-hand navigation panel. You'll see a list of all workflows created at both the space and account levels in a Table view.

    You can search, sort, and group workflows, and enable fields from the toolbar 4.

  4. Click + Workflow 5.

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  5. Enter your new workflow’s name 6. By default, it has one status in the Active and Completed workflow categories. While these default statuses can be edited, they can't be deleted.

  6. Add a description or summary of the workflow 7.

  7. Add statuses to your workflow by clicking Add Status 8 at the bottom of any workflow group, entering its name 9, and selecting a color for that status 10.

  8. Rename, Delete, or Change a status color by clicking that status.

  9. Optional: add approvals, transitions or assignees 11 upon a status change by clicking on a status.

  10. Click Delete status 12 if you want to permanently delete the status.

  11. Drag and drop statuses to arrange them within a status group in the order that makes the most sense for your team. The order you choose is the order that statuses will appear in an item’s drop-down status menu.

  12. Click Save in the upper right-hand corner 13.

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When you create a new workflow it becomes immediately available for all team members to see and use.

Note

Each Business and Enterprise account can have a maximum of 200 workflows, but there's no limit to the number of statuses that you can have within a workflow.

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