2013 Workflows - Trigger a workflow from a Content Type

So now that a workflow cannot be triggered from a Content Type, how are people doing this now? 
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
J Sykes

Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to trigger a workflow from a Content Type.
As we all know, we can attach a workflow to a Content Type, but the workflow cannot run until the Content Type is added to a list or library.
The elements of a list content type include the columns of metadata that are associated with the content type and workflows that can run on items of that content type.
More information about the content type and workflow are provided in the link below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262735.aspx
Best regards.
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Victoria Xia
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    However i need the Content-Type to be text/XML
    Where can i get this changed?
    Edited by: user773213 on Apr 8, 2009 4:48 AM

    i tried it but it still shows the same content-type
    ***************************B2B.LOG************************************************
    2009.04.08 at 18:45:29:500: Thread-10: Repository - (INFORMATION) BIND VARS = (5B7A966871774858A1C935F4ADEECA85-95-1, 95, 1, N, http://ap604fin.us.oracle.com:7787/HTTPService/Receiver, <0AB05E5912085DE6D600000082D60500@AS2_Mycompany>, null, null, , Processing, oracle.tip.repos.core.driver.BinaryImpl@10bbd42, , null, , oracle.tip.repos.core.driver.BinaryImpl@1b6772a, null, null, null, HTTP, , 1.0, Wed Apr 08 18:45:29 GMT+05:30 2009, , Message-ID=<0AB05E5912085DE6D600000082D60500@AS2_Mycompany>
    Content-Transfer-Encoding=binary
    MIME-version=1.0
    From=AS2_Mycompany
    Receipt-Delivery-Option=file://localhost/ORACLE_HOME\MyCompany
    Disposition-Notification-To=[email protected]
    AS2-To=AS2_Supplier1
    User-Agent=AS2 Server
    Date=Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:15:17 GMT
    AS2-Version=1.1
    AS2-From=AS2_Mycompany
    Content-Type=application/XML; name=ShipOrder
    Connection=close
    , null, 0AB05E5912085DE72520000082D60600, null, 3C4DF09FF3304FA698C287DA35154FDB, 826050DF70374FF389E372DB6D126D46)
    2009.04.08 at 18:45:29:906: Thread-10: Repository - (DEBUG) CatalogDriver.writeObjectList()
    ***********************************************************************************

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