This section covers rules, constraints, and errors you might encounter while designing,
building, and activating your approval processes.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions where
Advanced Approvals is enabled |
Activating a Flow
You can’t activate an approval flow that has validation errors. Errors are listed on the Flow
Builder Error tab.
Create, Update, and Delete Operations
You can’t use the sObject APIs to perform create, update, and delete (CUD) operations on a
standard field for an approval object. Instead, update approval records using the available
invocable actions or by designing alternate flows. However, you can use the APIs to update
custom fields.
Apex Trigger Update Restriction
All triggers must be updated to avoid any create, update, and delete operations on standard
approval fields, as these operations will fail. However, you can use triggers to update custom
fields.
