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Adding or modifying Categories in a Workflow

How-to Guide

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Changed on:

26 Sept 2023

Key Points

  •  A category represents a lifecycle phase in the WorKFlow,  it appears as a vertical column in the WF UI.
  • Within each lifecycle, we can have one or multiple statuses.

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Adding or modifying Categories in a Workflow

The vertical columns represent the lifecycle phase of the given workflow or entity. In the Workflow JSON, they are referred to as categories. These display the lifecycle of the entity. Various States can be configured per lifecycle phase.

Categories are set based on the Entity. For example, the Order Entity involves four lifecycle phases:

  • Booking
  • Fulfillment
  • Delivery
  • Completion

Within each of these lifecycle phases, there could be one or more Statuses.

Categories are fixed per entity. Modifying them in any way is not currently supported.

Categories exist to make the Workflow graph more readable and don't serve any other purpose.

You can change the Category a State is in by modifying its 

`category`
 field in the Workflow JSON. Learn more about adding a state to a Workflow via JSON.

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