A workflow in PDMS is used to wrap triggers and/or jobs together to accomplish a flow of actions and events that can be invoked over and over again without repeating the configuration. What also should be noted is that a workflow is a container. A Workflowworkflow Processprocess is a container for a group of Workflowworkflow Statusesstatuses and Actionsactions, such as moving a record from one status to another.<ref name="Workflow Container">{{cite web|title=Rollbase in action|url=http://www.progress.com/~/media/Progress/Documents/Rollbase/Rollbase%20in%20Action/chapter10.pdf|work=Chapter 10|author=Progress Software Corporation|page=6|format=PDF}}</ref> ExcludingOther than triggers and jobs, it can contain groups or artifacts. TheseThe items whichthat can be contained in the workflow are then available to all triggers and jobs within the workflow.
The concept of a workflow can be seen as a template for aeither part of, or a whole, business process. Workflows can, with the help of triggers, be invokedtriggered byfor a number of different reasons, suchan asexample whenof which could be if something happenswere to happen in the ___domain or there iswere to be an explicit call to invoke.
The workflow will be in a state awaiting execution when the workflow, its triggers, and its jobs are active.
When created, workflows expectsrequire the last part of the workflowjob to be added first., Thatmeaning lastjobs partare wouldto be alisted jobin reverse order of execution. Also jobsJobs and triggers wantsalso to knowrequire the nextreverse stepsequential inlisting theof floworders when they are created, meaning that they too advocate creating the workflow in reverse order.<ref name=Workflow>{{cite journal|last=UWE|first=ZDUN|coauthors=CARSTEN, SCHAHRAM|title=HENTRICH, DUSTDAR|journal=Modeling Process-Driven and Service-Oriented Architectures Using Patterns and Pattern Primitives|date=September 19, 2007|volume= 1|issue= 3|pages=23–27|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1281480.1281484|publisher=ACM, Inc.|___location=New York|format=PDF}}</ref>
