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title: Let Users Submit for Approval with Classic Approval Processes
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description: After you activate a classic approval process for an object, customize the object’s page layouts to support record submission.
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# Let Users Submit for Approval with Classic Approval Processes

After you activate a classic approval process for an object, customize the object’s page layouts to support record submission.

### 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.

Add the following components to your page layouts.

- Submit for Approval button
- Approval History related list
    
    The Approval History related list lets users submit approval requests and track a record’s progress through a classic approval process from the record detail page.

#### See Also

- [Page Layouts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.customize_layout.htm&language=en_US)
- [Prepare Your Org for Classic Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_prep_org.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Make sure that your users can submit their records for approval using classic approval processes, and consider how you can make it easy for approvers to respond to approval requests.")