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Understanding workflow steps

Understanding workflow steps

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Understanding workflow steps

So when we talk about a workflow step, a workflow step is a combination of conditions and actions that we've bundled together, or it's possible that only conditions or only actions, but it's the logical unit that makes sense. In this workflow that we're going to be creating in this course, we have some specific steps here in approval process. First, an area vice president approves, that's a step. Then it moves on to the finance vice president and all the actions related to the finance vice president and all the conditions, those are a step. And then we have an HR vice president who's approving, that's another step and then there are other steps that will follow. So the area vice president's approval, let's look at that one step. First, it begins with an action called Email. After that action has been taken, there's a second action, and that action is almost an inaction, but it's the action of waiting. Following those two actions, then, we have a condition. A condition says we will…

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