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title: "Difference Between Workflow and Visual Workflow?"  
description: "Difference Between Workflow and Visual Workflow?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-03-16  
updated: 2015-03-16  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23019/difference-between-workflow-and-visual-workflow  
category: "sales force"  
tags: ["cloud computing", "cloud", "cloud development", "sfdc", "dev-401"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Difference Between Workflow and Visual Workflow?

What is [Difference](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157114/good-news-or-bad-news-and-the-difference-is) Between [Workflow](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/33777/what-is-the-difference-between-trigger-and-workflow) and [Visual](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/audio/1147/through-the-lens-a-visual-exploration-of-the-world) Workflow?

## Replies

### Reply by Anonymous User

Even though they have similar names, Workflow and Visual Workflow are separate Salesforce features for automating business processes.**Workflow**Workflow enables you to set up workflow rules that identify what kinds of record changes or additions trigger specified workflow actions, such as sending email alerts and updating record fields.**Visual Workflow**Visual Workflow enables you to create flows, which are applications that are user-triggered instead of event-triggered. Unlike Workflow, which always executes rules and actions behind the scenes, Visual Workflow offers screens for displaying and collecting information from the user running the flow.


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