Provided are techniques for storing at least one checklist object that includes one or more placeholders that each are associated with an object stored and managed by a content management system, receiving an indication that a new content object has been created in the content management system or that an existing content object has been modified or has reached a certain status in the content management system, in response to determining that the new content object or the change in the status fulfills one or more placeholders, marking each of the one or more placeholders as fulfilled, and indicating that the checklist object is complete when the one or more placeholders have been fulfilled.