Current Problem

When an article is created there is currently a workflow assigned automatically, which is the workflow associated with the category of the article.

However, in many cases the category will be related to the subject matter of the article, whereas the workflow is likely to be related more to the complexity or importance of the article. So there is often not a good correlation between the article category and the workflow which should be applied.

Proposed Solution

This feature request is to enable a user with the requisite authority to be able to select a workflow to be applied to the article. This would apply when the article is initially created (ie New operation) and also whenever the article is already created (Edit operation), to allow correction of a workflow initially assigned wrongly.

Suggested Design

It may be that this requirement could be satisfied by adding an additional permission "core.edit.workflow" within the com_content / category / article asset hierarchy, but this would need to be checked and confirmed.