---
title: "Workflow cookbook"
slug: "workflow-cookbook"
abstract: "Introduction to creating, defining and configuring workflows for ."
---
# Workflow cookbook

This cookbook provides you with techniques for [/xmc/en/users/xm-cloud/en/sitecoreai.html](https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/users/sitecoreai/sitecoreai.html)editors and administrators who create and configure workflows.

- **Create a workflow with states**

    How to create a workflow with states and how you define the initial state.

- **Add commands and actions to states**

    How to add actions and commands to states as well as actions to commands, and how you define the final state.

- **Assign a workflow to a template**

    How to assign a workflow to a template via the *__Standard Values* template.

- **Hide a command for certain users**

    Guide to hiding workflow commands for certain users by disabling inheritance and specifying access manually.

- **Hide a state for certain users**

    Guide to hiding a workflow states for certain users by disabling inheritance and specifying access manually.