--- schema_version: "1" id: 49964b9871115ff35c4ba0f12e39816e4f5247484e553660c133aa6062c0d022 title: Advanced Approvals collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/release-notes/260-0-0/rn_adv_approvals.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_adv_approvals.htm&release=260&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 08a1eed70d6d25dfb5a4d5354aad1b40d51d0d3ad4c026585f244fa71a4a44a6 description: As an approval designer, use custom flow logic to auto-approve resubmitted records. Approve high-value record requests faster by overriding approval conditions easily. Enhance your smart approval logic by configuring step conditions with eight additional data types and up to 30 conditions for approval stage and step criteria. Create detailed approval email templates for up to 8 different notification reasons, giving reviewers all the necessary context to act on the request directly from their email. products: - Cross Cloud Packages Solutions release: "260" --- # Advanced Approvals As an approval designer, use custom flow logic to auto-approve resubmitted records. Approve high-value record requests faster by overriding approval conditions easily. Enhance your smart approval logic by configuring step conditions with eight additional data types and up to 30 conditions for approval stage and step criteria. Create detailed approval email templates for up to 8 different notification reasons, giving reviewers all the necessary context to act on the request directly from their email. - **[Approve Resubmissions Faster by Using Custom Logic](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_adv_approvals_custom_auto_approvals.htm&release=260&type=5)** Approval designers can now implement custom logic for auto-approving resubmitted records, overriding smart approval conditions. Make sure that urgent, high-value records move quickly through the approval process. Approval designers can create a custom flow to evaluate any necessary criteria, including checks against the prior submission details. Simplify this verification by using the new Get Previous Related Record Details invocable action within the flow to easily capture the previously submitted record's details. The new Use Custom Auto Approval Logic field on the approval step then stores the custom flow’s decision value to determine if the step is auto-approved. - **[Improve Approval Reviews with Custom Email Templates for Key Approval Paths](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_adv_approvals_email_notifications.htm&release=260&type=5)** Give approval designers the ability to use Lightning or Visualforce email templates. Designers can associate these templates with specific approval steps or the entire workflow. They can configure these templates for up to 8 different notification reasons that are relevant to approval submitters and reviewers. Previously, the custom email templates configured within the approval workflow lacked advanced formatting capabilities and didn’t support custom submitter emails. Use the new templates to show complex record data in structured formats, such as tables and images, so that your approval reviewers have all the necessary context to act on the requests directly from their email. - **[Process Smart Approvals Faster by Skipping Condition Checks](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_adv_approvals_smart_approval_skip_conditions.htm&release=260&type=5)** Give approval designers the option to skip the evaluation of the entry conditions in an approval step within a smart approval process. Help them save approval processing time by skipping unnecessary condition checks from resubmission evaluation based on your workflow’s context. For instance, if the submitted record description is empty during resubmission, designers can skip the condition if it’s irrelevant to the evaluation. - **[Define Complex Smart Approval Logic with More Data Types](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_adv_approvals_new_data_types_for_smart_approval_conditions.htm&release=260&type=5)** Configure the approval step entry conditions in an approval workflow by using nine additional data types, such as Date Time, Boolean, and Currency. Previously, you could define conditions for only the Text and Number data types. Help approval designers build complex and precise smart approval logic that aligns closely with your business rules, and reduce manual review time. For example, set a Date step entry condition that requires an approval step during resubmission only if the resubmission date is after a certain date. - **[Manage Complex Workflows Easily by Adding More Conditions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_adv_approvals_approval_conditions_limit_increase.htm&release=260&type=5)** Define up to 30 conditions for an approval stage exit, approval step entry, and approval step exit in an approval workflow. Previously, you defined a maximum of 10 conditions. Give approval designers the flexibility to build workflows that manage complex approval requests and minimize manual reviews for their users. - **[Tailor Your Approval Process with Custom Business Data](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_adv_approvals_modify_custom_fields_on_approvals.htm&release=260&type=5)** Capture business-specific data by modifying custom fields on approval entities through Apex triggers, custom actions, or directly from the record’s details page. For example, automate priority assignments on new approval work items by using triggers, or calculate profit margins during high-discount reviews by using custom actions. Previously, custom field updates weren’t supported on approval entities. - **[Verify Approval Decisions with Field History and Attachments](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_adv_approvals_verify_approval_decisions_with_history_and_attachments.htm&release=260&type=5)** Review and record the complete audit trail of your approval records by tracking your feed and the field history. Additionally, reviewers and submitters can attach relevant files to the approval records to minimize interruptions in the approval process. - **[New and Changed Objects for Advanced Approvals](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_adv_approvals_new_changed_objects.htm&release=260&type=5)** Store and access more data with these new Advanced Approvals objects and changes to existing Advanced Approvals objects. - **[New Invocable Action in Advanced Approvals](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_advanced_approvals_new_invocable_actions.htm&release=260&type=5)** Skip manual decisions and approve automatically by providing an override decision at each approval step. Use the new invocable action to fetch related record details.