# Workflow

## How to Create a Distribution List

| ### What to do:
| A distribution list provides automatic forwarding of information to recipients (individual users, groups or roles).
| Select Manager > Workflow > Distribution Lists. The Distribution with contents mask opens.
| Click the Code field and enter DIS-0001.
| Please note that for clear identification the code (distribution ID) must be unique!
| Click the Name field and enter Documentation department distribution.
| In the Type field click and select MULTI from the list.
| Enable the Standard check box if you wish to use this distribution list as your default distribution list!
| In the Comment field enter Distribution List for the Documentation Department.
| To save the entry click .
| The entry in the Type field is optional and indicates the use of the distribution list. The following entries can be selected:
Entry | Usage
Approval | The distribution list is exclusively used for the verification of products by several users or groups (by approval or voting).
Distribution | The distribution list is exclusively used for the distribution of documents that are entered in the in Documents tab.
Mailing | Exclusively used for the distribution of email messages.
Role | The distribution list is a resource in an activity.
Multi | For multiple use.