What difference between the step and stage?

STEPS: Steps are the containers of conditions and actions. You group similar conditions and actions into a step, like you would a stage of a process. There are regular steps, and there are Impersonation Steps. The difference is the context. When a workflow runs, it executes all conditions/actions as the user who started the workflow. If you need to do special things like set permissions, and that person doesn’t have rights to do that, you can use an Impersonation step. These steps run as the context of the user who published the workflow (like an admin). You can move existing conditions and actions up and down in the Step via the ribbon buttons (you CANNOT copy/paste actions or conditions) Steps can be nested in other steps, and run in parallel. STAGES: One really cool feature of a 2013 workflow is that Steps were replaced by the concept of a true stage. At the bottom of a stage, you have the ability to go to another stage, regardless if the stage is before or after the current Stage. That enables possibilities to re-execute certain actions based on conditions, which is SO useful! You can move existing conditions and actions up and down in the Stage via the ribbon buttons (you CAN copy/paste actions or conditions, VERY useful).

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Amit Mohanty6y ago
Hey check the below link

https://www.lynda.com/SharePoint-tutorials/Understanding-stages-steps/144025/161213-4.html
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Rajanikant Hawaldar6y ago
STEPS: Steps are the containers of conditions and actions. You group similar conditions and actions into a step, like you would a stage of a process. There are regular steps, and there are Impersonation Steps. The difference is the context. When a workflow runs, it executes all conditions/actions as the user who started the workflow. If you need to do special things like set permissions, and that person doesn’t have rights to do that, you can use an Impersonation step. These steps run as the context of the user who published the workflow (like an admin). You can move existing conditions and actions up and down in the Step via the ribbon buttons (you CANNOT copy/paste actions or conditions) Steps can be nested in other steps, and run in parallel. STAGES: One really cool feature of a 2013 workflow is that Steps were replaced by the concept of a true stage. At the bottom of a stage, you have the ability to go to another stage, regardless if the stage is before or after the current Stage. That enables possibilities to re-execute certain actions based on conditions, which is SO useful! You can move existing conditions and actions up and down in the Stage via the ribbon buttons (you CAN copy/paste actions or conditions, VERY useful).
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