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title: Chatter Post Templates for Approval Requests from Classic Approval Processes
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description: Approval post templates for Chatter let you customize the information that is included in the approval request post when it displays in a Chatter feed.
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# Chatter Post Templates for Approval Requests from Classic Approval Processes

Approval post templates for Chatter let you customize the information that is included in the approval request post when it displays in a Chatter feed.

### 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_post_templates__d5924e54"><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.

- **[Considerations for Chatter Post Templates for Approval Requests from Classic Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_post_templates_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Keep these limitations and dependencies in mind when working with post templates.
- **[Create a Chatter Post Template for Classic Approval Processes](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_post_templates_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Identify which fields to display in an approval request post.

#### See Also

- [Manage Deleted Custom Fields](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.fields_managing_deleted_fields.htm&language=en_US)