Workflows & Approvals
Customized, Secure, and Compliant Content Governance
Organizations today face growing demands to manage content across multiple channels while meeting strict security, compliance, and industry regulations.
dotCMS workflow and approval features empower your teams to create, review, and publish content with complete confidence — ensuring the right people approve the right content at the right time.
Accountable Publishing
Why Workflows & Approvals Matter for Security & Compliance
Regulatory Alignment
Ensure your content operations meet the strict standards required by regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, and industry-specific mandates. By enforcing review checkpoints and approval steps, dotCMS workflows help guarantee that sensitive information is handled in accordance with legal requirements, no matter where your team operates.
Audit Readiness
Every action taken within a workflow is automatically logged with user, date, and time details, creating a verifiable audit trail. Whether you’re preparing for an annual compliance review or responding to an unexpected audit, you’ll have a complete record of approvals, edits, and publishing decisions at your fingertips — without manual tracking.
Risk Mitigation
Reduce the chances of publishing inaccurate, incomplete, or unauthorized content. Built-in controls like multi-step approvals and permission-based actions ensure that only vetted and approved material reaches your audience, protecting your brand from misinformation, security breaches, and costly compliance violations.
Four-Eyes Approval
Require two or more approvals for any action or subaction, ensuring oversight and reducing risk.
Custom Actions
Integrate with 3rd-party systems or extend workflow actions through dotCMS plugins to meet your unique compliance needs.
Action Groups
Trigger multiple subactions with a single approval step, streamlining content governance while maintaining security.
Workflow Builder
Drag-and-drop interface for building custom workflow schemes tailored to your compliance requirements.
Translation Subactions
Automated, AI-powered translation with integration options for 3rd-party translation vendors — ideal for global compliance in multilingual environments.
Social Media Publishing
Integrate social channels directly into your workflows for controlled, compliant publishing.
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