---
title: "Enable or Disable a Workflow"
description: "steps to enable or disable a workflow"
url: "https://www.contentstack.com/docs/headless-cms/enable-or-disable-a-workflow"
product: "Contentstack"
doc_type: "guide"
audience:
  - developers
  - admins
version: "current"
last_updated: "2026-07-23"
---

# Enable or Disable a Workflow

Contentstack allows you to enable and disable a [workflow](/docs/headless-cms/about-workflows) as per your requirements.

To enable or disable a workflow, log in to your [Contentstack account](https://app.contentstack.com/#!/login), and perform the following steps:

1.  Go to your [stack](/docs/headless-cms/about-stack) and click on the “Settings” icon (press “S”).
2.  Click on **Workflows** (press “**alt + F**” for Windows OS, and “option + **F**” for Mac OS).
3.  Hover over the workflow you want to enable/disable, and click on the “Power” icon to enable or disable the workflow ![Enable\_a\_workflow\_1\_highlighted.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt23180bf2502c7444/blt1f3b670bf49a7602/60c0bee0971f487708eb2477/Enable_a_workflow_1_highlighted.png)
4.  Alternatively, to enable or disable the workflow via the workflow page, you need to check or uncheck the **Enable Workflow** checkbox, respectively.  
    ![Enable\_webhook.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt23180bf2502c7444/blt9bd6eb5fa33333dd/6320716f94f0bf32f4c41b0d/Enable_webhook.png)
5.  Click on **Save**.

## API Reference

Here are the links to the API requests related to this action:

*   [Enable workflow](/docs/developers/apis/content-management-api/workflows#enable-workflow)
*   [Disable workflow](/docs/developers/apis/content-management-api/workflows#disable-workflow)