Screen Location: Space Tools > Document Management > Document Management tab > Workflow Action Menu (Ellipsis) > Initialize States
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Select the desired state from the drop-down list and choose the Initialize states button. All content that the workflow is applied to will be transitioned to the selected state.
The workflow must be enabled for the Initialize states button to be visible.
When would I want to do this?
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When a workflow is first applied to a page in Space Modespace mode, only the link to the workflow is created (and any page restrictions, if using Samesame-space publishing, are applied). The page (or blog post) itself won't actually transition in to the initial workflow state, despite it appearing that way when you look at the Workflow Status Barworkflow status bar. If you look at the Activity Report - Content for such pages, you'll see that there are no workflow-specific entries listed. These pages are referred to as "unprocessed".
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If you tick the "Override current state" checkbox, the transition will also be applied to content that is considered "processed".