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description: You can have multiple versions of a flow approval process in Salesforce, but only one version of each flow approval process can be active at a time. You can activate or deactivate a flow approval process in Flow Builder or from the flow approval process’s detail page in Setup.
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# Activate or Deactivate a Flow Approval Process

You can have multiple versions of a flow approval process in Salesforce, but only one version of each flow approval process can be active at a time. You can activate or deactivate a flow approval process in Flow Builder or from the flow approval process’s detail page in Setup.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d125447e61 ">To activate or deactivate a flow approval process:</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d125447e61 "> To activate a record-triggered flow approval process: </td>

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When you activate a flow approval process version, the previously activated version, if one exists, is deactivated. Any in-progress approval submission based on the flow approval process continues to run using the version that it started with.

1. To activate or deactivate a flow approval process in the details view, from Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter flows, and then select **Flows**.
    1. In the quick menu of flow approval process in the Flow list view, click **View Details and Versions**.
    2. Click **Activate** or **Deactivate** in the row of the flow approval process version that you want to affect.
2. To activate or deactivate a flow approval process in Flow Builder, open the flow approval process to affect, and then on the button bar, click **Activate** or **Deactivate**.