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title: Workflow overview
linkTitle: Overview
weight: 1000
description: "Overview of the workflow building block"
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With workflows, you can orchestrate tasks or business logic within your application, making them reliable and restartable. Workflows provide a programming model for authoring code that abstracts away the complexities of messaging, state management, and failure handling.

## Workflow building block

The workflow building block:

- Provides a workflow API for running workflows
- An built-in workflow runtime to write Dapr workflows (of type workflow.dapr)
- Integrates with various workflow runtimes as components, for example Temporal workflows.

*To Do:*
- *Add diagram of how workflow API works?*
- *Add explaination of how the API works*
- *[Reference](https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/building-blocks/service-invocation/service-invocation-overview/)*

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## Features

Start, Terminate and X any workflow


## Next steps

- [Learn how to set up a workflow]({{< ref howto-workflow.md >}})
- [Supported workflows]({{< ref supported-workflows.md >}})