Is a third party tool required to build a workflow in Confluence?

[Marc Jara]

Within the native Confluence solution, I am unable to locate a Workflow tool allowing me to create workflows for various document approvals. I do see third party tools covering this functionality but with an additional cost. I was under the impression this could be done in Confluence out of the box?

[Kristian Klima]

Hello @Marc Jara 

Proper multi-stage approval workflow? No. 

There is the new 'page verified' status label and I guess you can use for workflow purposes. I wonder if this could be utilized with the currently early access Live Edit mode (thru permissions).

Depending on complexity of your workflow and approvals, you have quite a few options in the marketplace.

We're using Comala Document Approval (the simplest offering of the Appfire/Comala approval apps) in sync with Comala Publishing and Scroll Viewport to make sure that only final content makes it to our doc center.