Entity workflows are triggered when a record is created, saved, or deleted. A workflow is created from the entity administration form and provides a variety of actions that can be executed. Among the actions that can be executed from a workflow are:
Multiple workflows can be set up for a single action, but can be bypassed by using filters.
Injecting Variables Into Workflow Code
An administrator can inject field values into the code of the workflow by wrapping the column name in greater than less than sign and percent sign like so:
<%Column_Name%>
This is demonstrated on the workflow form below: