# Area Management: Cardholder Removal Workflow

## Use Case Overview 

Cardholder Removal Workflow is an example of a **System** workflow. It is used  to automatically remove selected cardholders from an access group during an access audit. It is available to approvers of the respective Access Groups. 

When configured, it is triggered by clicking the removal button in the **Cardholder tab** within the **Areas module.**

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## Workflow Configuration

This workflow does not require any additional configuration unless the customer wants to customize it, for example, by sending notification emails to cardholders whose access has been removed.

{% stepper %}
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### [Create new system workflow ](/command-centre/accessnow-user-guide/workflow-creation/creating-and-managing-workflows/workflow-management/creating-a-new-workflow.md)&#x20;

To create a workflow from a template, first manually create an empty workflow.
{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### [Import a template ](/command-centre/accessnow-user-guide/workflow-creation/creating-and-managing-workflows/working-with-workflow-templates/importing-workflows.md)

Download the Area Management Cardholder Removal workflow template you want to customize and import it into the empty workflow created earlier.

This workflow templet in it's default configuration doesn't need additonla configuration.  &#x20;

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{% step %}

### [Publish the workflow](/command-centre/accessnow-user-guide/workflow-creation/creating-and-managing-workflows/workflow-management/publishing-a-workflow-version.md)

After testing and being satisfied with the results, publish the workflow to make it visble on the systems's configuration drop-down lists.&#x20;
{% endstep %}

{% step %}

### [Select the workflow in the Area Management settings ](/command-centre/accessnow-user-guide/system-administration/set-up-the-access-removal-workflow.md#configure-the-removal-workflow)

Follow the instructions in the [Set up the Access Removal Workflow](/command-centre/accessnow-user-guide/system-administration/set-up-the-access-removal-workflow.md) and select the workflow during the Area Management configuration.
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