---
title: "Governance Workflows: Create a Governance Workflow"
url: "https://atlan.com/demos/create-a-governance-workflow/"
excerpt: "Master data governance! Explore a hands-on demo to create and manage approval workflows, ensuring data quality and compliance with ease."
description: "Master data governance! Explore a hands-on demo to create and manage approval workflows, ensuring data quality and compliance with ease."
format: "Arcade"
demo_url: "https://demo.arcade.software/ozGFR4NDGMp0LxcQ2Anp"
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content_purpose: ["Product Overview"]
target_persona: ["Data Governance Lead"]
journey_stage: ["S2 - Discovery", "C1 - Onboarding", "C3 - Adoption"]
use_case_context: ["Training"]
product: ["Data Marketplace - Data Governance"]
published: "2025-10-01"
updated: "2026-06-02"
content_type: "interactive demo step summary"
transcript_source: "arcade-steps"
---

# Governance Workflows: Create a Governance Workflow

Step-by-step summary of the interactive demo at https://atlan.com/demos/create-a-governance-workflow/

Master data governance! Explore a hands-on demo to create and manage approval workflows, ensuring data quality and compliance with ease.

## What the demo walks through

1. Begin by navigating to the governance center
2. Governance workflows are managed here
3. Create a new governance workflow
4. In this example, we'll create a metadata change management workflow
5. Use the template to begin
6. Enter a name for your governance workflow (Optional) Change the icon (Optional) Enter a description
7. Create the workflow
8. Select assets to include in the scope of your workflow
9. (Optional) View selected assets
10. (Optional) Enable auto-approval of requests
11. Create a subset of assets for auto-approval
12. (Optional) Select individual users or groups whose requests can be automatically approved
13. Define an approval strategy for for requests and identify approvers
14. You can enable any one approver from a list of approvers to approve requests...
15. ... or enable all selected approvers to approve requests in no particular order or simultaneously...
16. ... or enable all selected approvers to approve requests in a predefined order
17. In this example, we'll select the sequential strategy and then assign approvers
18. (Optional) Drag and drop approvers to create a custom order for approval
19. Set the minimum or maximum number of days during which the approval window will be open Proceed to review
20. Publish your governance workflow