---
title: "Build a Workflow"
slug: "buildaworkflow"
updated: 2025-09-24T01:28:09Z
published: 2025-09-24T01:28:09Z
canonical: "help.12dsynergy.com/buildaworkflow"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Build a Workflow

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## 1.1. How to Build a Workflow on a List Type Attribute

1. Right-click the folder on which you want to create a workflow again and select the **Edit folder** option. The **Edit a folder: <*Folder Name*>** window is displayed.
2. Select the **Attributes tab > File Attributes** tab.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/36833d89-59e3-46a5-b491-e9aa1b524a85/Images/Documentation/fileatt.png)
3. Select the ***Status*** attribute ([created here](/v1/docs/v5v6attributes#14-how-to-create-add-an-attribute)) and click the **Edit** ![](https://cdn.document360.io/36833d89-59e3-46a5-b491-e9aa1b524a85/Images/Documentation/editicon(4).png) icon. The **Create/Edit an Attribute** window is displayed.
4. Click the **Workflow** button. The **Edit a Workflow** window is displayed.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/36833d89-59e3-46a5-b491-e9aa1b524a85/Images/Documentation/wfbutton.png)
5. Click the **Add all states** button. All the values that you have added to the list attribute are displayed as states in the workflow.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/36833d89-59e3-46a5-b491-e9aa1b524a85/Images/Documentation/2AddAll States.png)
6. Link the states in the desired flow by dragging the edge of one state to the other. These links (arrows in the below image) are called **Transitions**.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/36833d89-59e3-46a5-b491-e9aa1b524a85/Images/Documentation/wfdrawn(1).png)
7. If for any state in the workflow, you want to prevent the users from doing any of the following tasks, then select that state in the workflow and select the **prevents updates?** checkbox in the right panel.
  1. Checking in a file
  2. Updating a task, issue or a job attribute

![](https://cdn.document360.io/36833d89-59e3-46a5-b491-e9aa1b524a85/Images/Documentation/image(114).png)

Therefore, when the workflow transitions to this specific state, a user will not be allowed to perform any of the above-listed activities.
8. Click the last state, ***Issued***, and in the right panel select the **Is workflow resolution?** checkbox. This marks the ***Issued*** state as the last state of the workflow, and turns the state red.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/36833d89-59e3-46a5-b491-e9aa1b524a85/Images/Documentation/resstate(1).png)
9. Click the **Save** button. The workflow is saved.