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EnableWorkflow attribute defines if the workflow support for the site is enabled or not. This is an important attribute in site definition if you want workflow to work correctly. If you miss this, you may create problems for content authors which we will discuss in the post.  The Problem While testing a customization in Sitecore workflow, we stumbled upon following issue -  Content authors created a page in Experience Editor and left the page in Draft mode expecting all the data source items they edited on page are also in Draft state. Then a nightly automatic publish published all draft data source items to the live servers. Why did this happen? The steps to replicate. Create a new page in Sitecore  Open Experience Editor and add a component that needs a data source.  Select 'create a new data source' in the popup window.  Save the page in experience editor  Open the data source in the Content editor and take a look at the workflow state section. It will be blank instead of ha