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# Workflow overview
Workflows are a flexible and visual way to monitor, control and remediate data access in your SaaS applications. You can create workflows to support a large number of possible events, user actions, conditions and remediation actions, all based on a rich variety of playbook use cases, while supporting security policies in your organization.
Workflows are flexible and granular enough to detect almost any malicious or anomalous behavior a user is doing, near real-time, in a specific application. For example, workflows can:
* Prevent public sharing of sensitive documents, and warn the user who shared it. You can leverage workflow notifications in email or Slack messages to educate your organization's users about the risks of sharing SaaS data.
* Auto-expire external sharing to certain collaborators, and notify the collaborators.
* Notify when an encrypted key is being shared, and decide whether to approve it or not.
* Approve or deny sharing of private accounts, and auto-expire their sharing.
View all workflow activity and analytics across your organization in the Workflow dashboard
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* To display the Workflow dashboard, click **Workflows** in the DoControl menu bar. Scroll down to view the Workflows list.
* You need **Admin** permission to create and configure workflows.
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Workflows include these topics:
* [Drag-and-drop canvas](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/drag-and-drop-canvas.md) - Overview of the visual medium to create and configure your workflows.
* [Workflow events](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/workflow-events.md) - Event-driven policy engine that's triggered by SaaS app events and DoControl alerts.
* [Create a workflow](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/create-a-workflow.md) - Several options for setting up a new workflow, including playbooks, scheduled workflows, and event-aggregated workflows.
* [Define workflow settings](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/define-workflow-settings.md) - Define workflow parameters:
* [Trigger settings](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/define-workflow-settings/trigger-settings.md) - A SaaS event, alert or inventory action that together with defined conditions set the workflow into motion.
* [Action settings](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/define-workflow-settings/action-settings.md) - Workflow steps, including notification, decision, approval, query and remediation actions that are defined according to SaaS app.
* [Workflow dashboard](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/workflow-dashboard.md) - View workflow analytics and navigate the workflow list. Manage your workflows with these actions: filter, edit, activate, deactivate, duplicate, export and delete.
* [Activity dashboard](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/activity-dashboard.md) - Monitor the progress of all executions of a specific workflow from the last 30 days, inspect trigger event info and execution details, and run execution actions.
* [Inventory actions](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/inventory-actions-quick-actions.md) - You can manually trigger on-demand remediation actions to resolve specific issues per SaaS app.
* [Bulk remediation](/docontrol-user-guide/workflows/bulk-remediation.md) - Perform remediation actions on selected assets or inventory items in bulk.
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Learn more about workflows with DoControl videos:
* [How to get started with workflows in DoControl](/docontrol-user-guide/help/videos.md#how-to-get-started-with-workflows-in-docontrol)
* [Workflow anatomy and best practices](/docontrol-user-guide/help/videos.md#workflow-anatomy-and-best-practices)
* [How to build a security workflow](/docontrol-user-guide/help/videos.md#how-to-build-a-security-workflow)
* [Workflow notifications](/docontrol-user-guide/help/videos.md#workflow-notifications)
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