A workflow stage represents a phase in your development or release process. For example, your development process might have New, Scheduled, WIP (work-in-progress), and Closed phases, among others. In a workflow, stages typically correspond to the values of the Status field in your AccuWork schema, but you can use whatever field in your schema you need to create a workflow to model your organization’s process.
Conditions defined for a stage determine whether or not an issue can be in that stage. For example, the condition for the WIP stage might be defined as Status = WIP restricts entry into what workflow stage to issue records whose Status field is set to WIP. A workflow stage must have at least one condition defined for it before an issue can be in that stage.
You can also define actions to perform on the issue when it enters the stage (entry actions), and actions to perform each time the record is saved (validation actions). An example of a validation action might be to ensure that a required field has a value specified for it.
See Creating and Managing Workflow Stages for more information.