The definition of a workflow, according to Wikipedia, is a "representation of a sequence of operations".When taken at face value, a workflow is usually something you want to automate Drupal. in other words, what we are talking about is the automation Drupal and my guess is, you'll want to automate things in Drupal, based on certain events.
The part of Drupal automation confusion is the fact that you need to know what works together to achieve this Automation. With modules of workflow, actions, triggers * (* part of Drupal 6 core) and rules, can be quite confusing when it comes to automation.
Put simply, in Drupal 6, you can use the workflow module (which I don't show in the video), but you can also get with the default triggers and actions (as said, already installed with Drupal).However, unless you know, that you must install the workflow module to achieve automation that you're looking for and potentially Triggerunlock module (which if you install the workflow in Drupal 6 is not really necessary), things can get really confused, really fast.
So, besides trying to confuse this with the paragraph above (which I did on purpose), all installation and things do or don't need, I focused more on form rules because it is a one-stop-shop for automation that goes beyond what can be done with triggers, actions, and workflow.
Even though I am a converted to module rules of Drupal, congratulations to John VanDyk (whose book helped me learn even better Drupal) for creating workflows and actions (I started with in Drupal 4.7) and Wolfgang Ziegler to create the module ever powerful rules. I can only hope this video will provide you with almost everything you need to know to automate things so that you can get the final Drupal workflow!
Note: If you are working with Drupal 5, then workflow, actions, and workflow-ng (also by Wolfgang) will give you that you need automation. in most cases all, then installed form token so that you can do things that make the big boys.
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