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title: Create a Chatter Post Template for Classic Approval Processes
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description: Identify which fields to display in an approval request post.
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# Create a Chatter Post Template for Classic Approval Processes

Identify which fields to display in an approval request post.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d258661e73 ">To create approval request post templates:</td>

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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.

1. From Setup, enter Post Templates in the Quick Find box, then select **Post Templates**.
2. Click **New Template**.
3. Select the object for your template.
4. Click **Next**.
5. Give the template a name and description.
6. If you want this template to be the default for the associated object, select **Default**.
7. Add up to four fields to display on the approval request post.
    
    We recommend putting any text-heavy fields—such as Comments or Description—at the bottom.
8. Save your changes.

#### See Also

- [Choose Request Notification Templates for a Classic Approval Process](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.approvals_create_templates.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "When a classic approval process assigns an approval request to a user, Salesforce sends the user an approval request email. If Approvals in Chatter is enabled, Salesforce also posts the approval request to Chatter. Choose templates for each of these notifications.")
- [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.")