Glossary
The Workflow Engine Glossary explains the product, licensing, design, runtime, API, operations, and extension terms used across Workflow Engine, its documentation, and its code. The glossary is split into subject pages so product users, product managers, and developers can read one area at a time while still finding accepted aliases, historical names, and exact code identifiers.
Find terms by subject
Choose the subject closest to the term you encountered. Each page starts with foundational concepts and then defines their variants, related operations, aliases, and code names.
- Products and Licensing explains Products, Product Families, Editions, Licenses, Execution Threads, and which Products belong to the Workflow Engine Family.
- Designing Workflows explains Workflows, Schemes, Activities, Parameters, Workflow Designer, the Scheme build pipeline, reusable fragments, and versioning.
- Running Workflows explains Workflow Runtime, Process Instances, Parallel Processes, recovery, simulation, and Process Status.
- Transitions and Permissions explains Transitions, Commands, Timers, Work Calendars, Conditions, Actions, identities, and workflow authorization.
- APIs and Integration distinguishes the in-process API, Workflow Engine Web API as an ASP.NET Core integration, Workflow Engine HTTP API as its published endpoint surface, the Designer and Health Check APIs, the NEO Data and RPC APIs, and Workflow Server's Workflow API.
- Operations and Scaling explains persistence, databases, history, diagnostics, Runtime Status, clustering, multitenancy, and hybrid tenancy.
- Plugins and Extensions explains the Plugin System, shipped Plugins, Parallel Approval, Custom Activity Types, forms integration, and BPMN Support.
See also
These pages explain the central entities and product choices behind the glossary definitions.
- Workflow Engine Concepts connects Schemes, Process Instances, Activities, Transitions, and Workflow Runtime.
- Workflow Engine Features describes product capabilities.
- Workflow Engine Editions describes current editions and licensing models.
- Plugin System explains how Plugins extend Workflow Runtime.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I find a Workflow Engine term?
Open the subject page that matches the context in which the term appears. Documentation search also finds accepted aliases, historical names, and exact code identifiers written inside the canonical definition.
Why is the Workflow Engine Glossary split into several pages?
The subject pages keep related terms together without requiring readers to scan one long document. The overview preserves one starting URL and links to every glossary subject.
Does the glossary include old Workflow Engine names?
Yes. A historical or former name appears beside the canonical term when readers can still encounter it. The old name does not receive a duplicate entry unless it identifies a genuinely different concept.