About transition equivalence

Transition equivalence is the equality of a transition in one document workflow to a different transition in a different document workflow. This makes it possible to run a transition for one document in a batch of documents and have it run transitions in other documents within the batch even if the transitions don’t have the same name.

For example, consider a batch of three documents. The next and final transition of the first document is named Release and completes the workflow. The final transition of the other two documents is named Issue, but the Issue transition is not the next transition in their workflows. Also assume that a system administrator has defined the first document’s Release transition to be equivalent to the other documents’ Issue transition. After the first document’s Release transition has been run, the other two documents’ Issue transitions will run as well, completing the workflows of all three documents in one step.

A system administrator can define transition equivalence between:

• All transitions to the same destination state
• All transitions with the same tag name
• All transitions from the same source state
• No other transition

Transition equivalence can cause seemingly inexplicable changes in a document’s workflow. Consult a system administrator for more information on the transition equivalence configured for workflow definitions in your vault.