Standard and custom actions

Sitecore contains a number of standard actions. You can also create custom actions and configure them to call .NET methods.

Auto Submit Action

The Auto Submit Action moves the content item to the next state if the user belongs to the specified role.

It is based on the /sitecore/Templates/System/Workflow/Auto Submit Action template.

The Data section contains the following fields:

Field	Value
Type	The construct classname,assembly_name specifies the class and the file it is stored in.
Role Name	The only role that the action is available to. You can only enter one role, and you receive an error if the field is empty.
Next State	When the action is triggered, it moves the content item to the state specified in this field.

Auto Publish Action

The Auto Publish Action appears under the Approved state of the Sample Workflow.

It is based on the common /sitecore/Templates/System/Workflow/Action template.

The Data section contains the following fields:

Field	Value
Type	The construct classname,assembly_name specifies the class and the file it is stored in.
Parameters	A collection of name-value parameters separated by an ampersand (&), that control the publishing options. Supported parameters - a Boolean parameter that indicates whether to publish child items. The acceptable values are 1 and 0.smart - a Boolean parameter that indicates whether to compare revisions during a publish job, to avoid republishing unmodified items (smart publish). The acceptable values are 1 and 0.related - a Boolean parameter that indicates whether to publish items with their related items. Acceptable values are 1 and 0.targets - a comma-separated list of names of publishing targets (items defined in /sitecore/system/publishing targets). If none are specified, the content is published to all the targets in /sitecore/system/publishing targets. For example =webNA,webEU,webAPalllanguages - a Boolean parameter that specifies whether to publish the content in all the languages defined in /sitecore/system/languages. The acceptable values are 1 and 0. When set to 0, the content is published in the context language of the current item, or in the languages specified for the languages parameter.languages - a comma-separated list of language versions to publish. The language of the currently selected item is included implicitly. If no languages are specified, the content is published only in the language of the current item (see the description of the following itemlanguage parameter for more details). For example, these values set the publishing languages to English and Ukrainian =en,uk-UAitemlanguage - a Boolean parameter that indicates whether to use the language of the current item. Acceptable values are 1 and 0. If set to 0, only the languages explicitly named in the languages parameter are published. For example, if you set the actions to languages=en,uk-UA&itemlanguage=1, and trigger a publishing action workflow for a de version of an item, the item is published in the language versions for en, uk-UA, and de. In the same scenario, if itemlanguage=0, it's published only in en and uk-UA.