Workflows
Automate recording routing and assignments in Ardela.
Workflows automate how recordings move through your team — routing to transcribers, assigning by priority, or triggering on status changes.
Workflows require a Pro or Enterprise plan. Only workspace owners and admins can create and edit workflows.
Opening Workflows
Open Workflows from the sidebar (/workflows). Use the Approvals tab (/workflows?tab=approvals) to review pending workflow approval steps.
What workflows do
Workflows run automatically when configured triggers fire. Common uses:
- Route urgent recordings to a specific transcriber group
- Assign new queue items using round-robin across a team
- Trigger actions when a recording status changes
- Run scheduled checks on queue health
Triggers
| Trigger | Fires when |
|---|---|
| Recording complete | Author finishes and sends to queue |
| Transcriber complete | Transcriber marks work done |
| Status change | Recording moves between statuses |
| Assignment change | Recording is assigned or reassigned |
| Manual | Authorized user triggers from the UI |
| Scheduled | Cron schedule (e.g. daily at 9am) |
All triggers support filters for priority, template, and author.
Steps
The primary step type is Route — conditional assignment based on recording fields:
- Match rules on priority, status, group, and other fields
- Assign to a specific user or group
- Round-robin distributes work evenly across group members
Building a workflow
- Open Workflows → New workflow
- Name the workflow and choose a trigger
- Add trigger conditions (optional)
- Add a Route step with assignment rules
- Save and enable
Test with a manual trigger before relying on automatic triggers in production.
Approvals
Some workflow steps require human approval before proceeding. Check the Approvals tab for pending items and approve or reject each one.
