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title: Enable Classic Approval Processes in Chatter
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description: If your organization has both Approvals and Chatter enabled, administrators can turn on Approvals in Chatter. Users then receive approval requests as posts in their Chatter feeds.
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  - Salesforce Platform
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# Enable Classic Approval Processes in Chatter

If your organization has both Approvals and Chatter enabled, administrators can turn on Approvals in Chatter. Users then receive approval requests as posts in their Chatter feeds.

### Required Editions

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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.

Before you begin, make sure that all classic approval processes in your org are properly configured to take advantage of Approvals in Chatter. After turning on this feature, all existing active classic approval processes start generating Chatter posts.

1. From Setup, enter Chatter Settings in the Quick Find box, then select **Chatter Settings**.
2. Click **Edit**.
3. Select **Allow Approvals**.
4. Save your changes.

#### See Also

- [Prepare to Enable Classic Approval Processes in Chatter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_for_chatter_getstart.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Because Approvals in Chatter relies on both Chatter and the Classic Approval Processes feature, getting your org set up involves more than just turning on the feature. Before you enable Approvals in Chatter, understand the limitations and considerations for Approvals in Chatter and post templates.")
- [Considerations for Classic Approval Processes in Chatter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_for_chatter_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Find out more about Approvals in Chatter, before you enable it.")
- [Where Do Approval Request Posts for Classic Approval Processes Appear?](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_for_chatter_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "When your org has Approvals in Chatter enabled, approval request posts appear in various Chatter feeds. To see the approval request post, you must have access to the approval record.")