---
schema_version: "1"
id: f612cbbeedf2b122181872553b5a3bcc30ff94e75253cf5569be04398559441d
title: Classic Approval Process History Reports
collection: admin
version: current
locale: en-us
portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/platform/264-0-0/approval_history_reports.md
canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approval_history_reports.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5
source_site: help.salesforce.com
content_type: documentation
content_hash: 0bcee58ca82bcd1d2654e3955fd7d532481f694fda0e137b2de0b471896e2ab9
description: If you create a custom report type for classic approval process instances, users can view the historical details of completed and in-progress classic approval processes and their individual steps.
products:
  - Flow Builder
  - Salesforce Platform
release: "264"
---
# Classic Approval Process History Reports

If you create a custom report type for classic approval process instances, users can view the historical details of completed and in-progress classic approval processes and their individual steps.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class="" id="approval_history_reports__d3314e54"><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-platform_automation-264-0-0-production-enus/60568438-ec7e-4665-acd1-7c80dcbe60d5/images/icon_important.png)

Important Try [Flow Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.automate_automated_approvals.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "As your company grows, so does the complexity of your approvals, often requiring input from multiple people in different departments across different time zones. This complexity can mean that you spend more time waiting for each person to complete their review in the right order. Flow Approval Processes helps you coordinate multistep reviews that involve users, systems, and conditional paths."), a modern alternative to Classic Approval Processes. This new feature provides a more flexible, user-friendly flow-based interface, and it can trigger on record changes, supporting Apex extensibility and detailed logging for compliance and audit trails. It supports dynamic routing based on data and business rules, unlike Classic Approval Processes, which are tied to specific objects and offer limited support for processes by using conditions. With Flow Approval Processes, you can monitor submitted records and quickly identify bottlenecks, giving you unprecedented visibility into approval workflows. And, like Classic Approval Processes, Flow Approval Processes don’t consume automation credits or orchestration runs.

- **[Fields Available for Classic Approval Process History Reports](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approval_history_reports_fields.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    If you create a custom report type with Process Instance as the primary object and Process Instance Node as the related object, you can create approval history reports with various combinations of fields that enable you to view a detailed history of executed and in-progress classic approval processes and their individual steps.
- **[Examples of Classic Approval History Reports](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approval_history_reports_examples.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    See sample reports to learn how you can obtain approval history data.
- **[Considerations for Classic Approval Process History Reports](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approval_history_reports_limitations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Understand the limitations and special behaviors when you create or view approval history reports, which provide a detailed history of classic approval processes and steps.

#### See Also

- [Create a Custom Report Type for Approval History](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approval_history_custom_report_type.htm&language=en_US)