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description: Identify a delegated approver and control whether you receive approval request emails.
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  - Flow Builder
  - Salesforce Platform
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# Classic Approval Processes User Preferences

Identify a delegated approver and control whether you receive approval request emails.

### 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="approvals_change_approval_user_pref__d3780e54"><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.

From your personal settings, enter Approver Settings in the Quick Find box, then select **Approver Settings**. No results? Enter Personal Information in the Quick Find box, then select **Personal Information**.

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            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d142019e111">Field</th>
            <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d142019e114">Description</th>
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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d142019e111 ">
              <samp class="parmname">Delegated Approver</samp>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d142019e114 ">
              <p>Your alternate approver. If populated, this user receives the same approval
                requests as you do. Delegated approvers can't reassign approval requests; they can
                only approve or reject approval requests.
              </p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;"><span>Internal Salesforce users are
                  listed by and can be added using the Delegated Approver lookup field. Use Data Loader and
                  a comma-delineated (CSV) file to add users with communities licenses as Delegated
                  Approvers. The CSV uses the <samp class="parmname">CommunityUserId</samp> rather than the
                  <samp class="parmname">UserId</samp> for <samp class="parmname">DelegatedApproverId</samp>. Communities
                  licenses are used with Experience Cloud sites and legacy portals.</span></p>
            </td>

          </tr>
          <tr class="">
            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d142019e111 ">
              <samp class="parmname">Manager</samp>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d142019e114 ">Depending on how your admin sets up classic approval processes, requests for
              approval can automatically be routed to your manager. </td>

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            <td data-label="Field" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d142019e111 ">
              <samp class="parmname">Receive Approval Request Emails</samp>
            </td>

            <td data-label="Description" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d142019e114 ">
              <p>
                <span id="approvals_change_approval_user_pref__approvals_email_pref_desc"><a name="approvals_change_approval_user_pref__approvals_email_pref_desc"><!-- --></a>Controls whether you receive approval
                  request notifications by email, in the Salesforce mobile app, or in Lightning
                  Experience.</span>
              </p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">If you select <strong class="uicontrol">Never</strong>, you don’t receive approval request
                notifications. However, you still receive approval request emails from a queue,
                depending on how your admin configured the queue email.</p>
            </td>

          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>

- **[Opt Out of Approval Request Posts from Classic Approval Processes in Chatter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.collab_approval_requests.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    By default, after your org enables Approvals in Chatter, you’re notified about approval requests by email and a Chatter post. To stop seeing the Chatter posts, opt out. If you do opt out, the posts don’t appear in your feed but they do appear in the associated record’s feed.
- **[What Happens When You Opt Out of Chatter Approval Requests from Classic Approval Processes?](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.collab_approval_requests_optedout.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    By default, when your org has Approvals in Chatter enabled, you receive approval request notifications by email and Chatter. Here’s what happens when you opt out of the Chatter posts.

#### See Also

- [Approval Requests from Classic Approval Processes for Users](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_users.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Your admin can set up classic approval processes that let you and other users submit records for approval, which results in approval requests.")
- [Personalize Your Salesforce Experience](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.user_overview.htm&language=en_US)