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# Multi-Workflow Support for Plone
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`collective.multiworkflow` lets a behavior add workflows to a content type's workflow chain, and carries those workflows through the catalog, the REST API, and Volto.
When a content type provides a participating behavior, this add-on **appends** one or more workflows to that type's chain.
The chain configured for the type is never replaced, `review_state` never changes meaning, and content that does not provide the behavior is left completely untouched.
```python
from collective.multiworkflow import api as mw_api
mw_api.get_states(member)
```
```python
{'simple_publication_workflow': 'published', 'membership_workflow': 'active'}
```
```{warning}
This documentation was written with Claude Opus 5, following the [Plone documentation style skill](https://github.com/plone/plone-doc-style-skill), and reviewed by a human being.
```
## Where to start
`````{grid} 1 1 2 2
:gutter: 3
````{grid-item-card} 🎓 Tutorial
:link: tutorials/add-a-second-workflow
:link-type: doc
Give a content type a second workflow and drive it end to end.
+++
Start here if the package is new to you.
````
````{grid-item-card} 🛠️ How-to guides
:link: how-to-guides/index
:link-type: doc
Install the package, declare a contribution, search by an additional state.
+++
Directions toward a result.
````
````{grid-item-card} 💡 Concepts
:link: concepts/index
:link-type: doc
Why chains, why behaviors, why `review_state` is left alone.
+++
Understanding, away from the keyboard.
````
````{grid-item-card} 📖 Reference
:link: reference/index
:link-type: doc
The Python API, the ZCML directive, the catalog index, the REST API, Volto.
+++
Technical description of the machinery.
````
`````
## What it gives you
**Behavior-driven assignment.**
Enable a behavior on a type and its workflows come along.
No per-type chain editing, and no workflow on content that should not have it.
**`review_state` untouched.**
Each additional workflow drives a state variable of its own, so Plone's publication workflow keeps working exactly as before.
**Workflow-aware helpers.**
Read and drive per-workflow state with `plone.api`-style functions whose defaults behave identically to the API you already use.
**One catalog index for the whole chain.**
Additional states are queryable like any other index, and existing `review_state` collections keep working.
**REST API and Volto.**
`@workflow` gains a per-workflow breakdown, `@history` reports every workflow's transitions tagged with the workflow that recorded them, and the Volto components render each additional workflow—or nothing at all, on content that has none.
## What is not in scope
Placeful workflows, sub-workflows, and any arbitration between workflows managing the same permission.
{doc}`concepts/scope` explains why each exclusion is deliberate.
```{toctree}
:caption: Tutorials
:maxdepth: 2
:hidden: true
tutorials/index
```
```{toctree}
:caption: How-to guides
:maxdepth: 2
:hidden: true
how-to-guides/index
```
```{toctree}
:caption: Concepts
:maxdepth: 2
:hidden: true
concepts/index
```
```{toctree}
:caption: Reference
:maxdepth: 2
:hidden: true
reference/index
```
```{toctree}
:caption: Appendices
:maxdepth: 2
:hidden: true
glossary
genindex
```