{"revision":"c10276e953456835cdbb1f3a60d58ae1980be353","document":{"id":3702,"path":"build-workflows/approvals/c_ProcessApprovals.md","title":"Process approvals","bundle":null,"doc_type":null,"release":"australia","body":"\n# Process approvals\n\nOnce a request has passed its gating approvals, any relevant execution plans are initiated.\n\n**Important:** Classic approval rules have been replaced by the Workflow Studio [Ask for Approval action](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/build-workflows/workflow-studio/ask-approval-flow-designer.md). Use Workflow Studio to create workflow-driven approval logic that is easier to maintain and provides better reporting information.\n\nThose plans, in turn, create a sequence of required tasks. You can add an approval step to an execution plan, which is configured to occur at the appropriate point.\n\nFrom the left navigation pane, select **Service Catalog** > **Execution Plans**, and then select the plan to which to add an approval step. Then click the **New Approval** button.\n\n\\[Omitted image \"AddApproval.png\"\\] Alt text: Add an approval\n\nThe Approval Task screen appears. Just like a regular Service Catalog execution task, an approval execution task has:\n\n-   **Name**: The name of this task\n-   **Order**: Sequence of this task within the plan\n-   **SLA**: SLA to which this task applies\n-   **Delivery Time**: Time allowed for the completion of this task\n\nAfter you create the task, right click the title bar and select **Save**. Two related lists appear at the bottom of the screen:\n\n-   **Approved By Group**: A list of groups that must approve the request before this task is complete\n-   **Approved By**: A list of users who must approve the request before this task is complete\n\n\\[Omitted image \"ApproveTask.png\"\\] Alt text: Approval task\n\nIn the example above, this security approval task must be approved by Fred Luddy.\n\n**Note:** When an in-process approval is rejected, that particular line item is canceled as well, but the request itself isn't necessarily canceled. Thus if one ordered a blackberry and a laptop, and the blackberry was rejected, the laptop request would continue being processed.\n\n"}}