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title: Specify Who Can Submit Records to a Classic Approval Process
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description: Only specified individuals or roles can submit a record for approval. You can also let submitters recall an approval request.
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# Specify Who Can Submit Records to a Classic Approval Process

Only specified individuals or roles can submit a record for approval. You can also let submitters recall an approval request.

### 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_create_submitters__d5077e54"><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>

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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.

## Initial Submitters

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small "><colgroup><col style="width:24.154589371980673%"> <col style="width:75.84541062801932%"></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;"><strong class="uicontrol">Submitter Type</strong></td><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Select a type or search to populate the Available Submitters list.</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;"><strong class="uicontrol">Allowed Submitters</strong></td><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">If the user who submits a record for approval isn’t included in this list, the record doesn’t enter this classic approval process—even if the record meets the entry criteria.</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Page Layout Settings

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              <strong class="uicontrol">Add the Submit for Approval button and Approval History related list to all
                <var>Object</var> page layouts</strong>
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              <p>When selected, Salesforce adds the Submit for Approval button to the Standard
                Buttons and Approval History related list to the Related Lists for all page layouts
                for the object.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">This setting is available only when you create a classic approval
                process. If the Standard Buttons for a layout haven’t been customized before, the
                Submit for Approval button isn’t added.
              </p>
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## Submission Settings

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              <strong class="uicontrol">Allow submitters to recall approval requests</strong>
            </td>

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              <p>If selected, submitters can recall their approval requests. If unselected, only admins
                can recall requests.</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">This option is useful for situations where things can change on the
                submitter’s side while waiting for an approval. For example, an opportunity could be lost
                after the user submits it for approval.</p>
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