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Every stage change sends an email to the right people and leaves a permanent record. This page covers both.

Availability

This feature is available on the Custom Enterprise plan only. To enable it for your workspace, contact support@thepublive.com.

Email notifications

Workflows sends email only. There are no in-app notifications. Recipients are worked out automatically, so there is nothing to configure beyond optional Additional notification recipients on a stage.

Who is emailed

For each event, the recipients are:
  • everyone who can act at the stage the entry has arrived at
  • the assignee, if there is one
  • the author
A stage can also name additional recipients. They are told but are not expected to act. Use this for cases like letting Marketing know when content clears Legal. Recipients are de-duplicated. Nobody receives two copies of one event, and nobody is notified about their own action.

Events

A workflow has no fixed forward or backward path: a stage’s Next stages can point to any other stage. Every move uses the same Move to dialog, with the same optional note. One move produces exactly one event, whatever its destination. Each email has one button that opens the entry. Where a note or reason was entered, it is included in the email. People who approved an entry earlier are not emailed when it eventually goes live.

Audit trail

Every stage change is recorded permanently and cannot be edited or deleted. Each record holds:
  • who acted, and their role at the time
  • when it happened
  • the entry
  • the stage it moved from and the stage it moved to
  • the note or reason, if one was entered
  • whether the move was an override
Records survive the deletion or renaming of the stage or workflow that produced them, and still name the stage as it was. The same records appear in two places:
  • the entry’s History timeline, for the people doing the work. See Review and move content.
  • Audit Logs, for compliance and investigation, alongside every other audited action. Retention follows your workspace’s audit retention policy.

Next steps

Audit Logs

See everything Publive DXP records across your workspace.

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Last modified on November 2, 2026