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Create Approval Actions
Use approval actions to determine what actions happen after an approval request is accepted, rejected, or recalled.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Automotive Cloud, Consumer Goods Cloud, Education Cloud, Financial Services Cloud, Health Cloud, Insurance, Manufacturing Cloud, Media Cloud, Net Zero Cloud, Nonprofit Cloud, Public Sector Solutions, and Rebate Management |
You’ve already created an approval process for your document checklist items.
Note Approval Processes aren’t available in Professional Edition.
- From Setup, in the Quick Find box, Approval Processes, then select Approval Processes.
- In Manage Approval Processes For, select Document Checklist Item.
- Under Inactive Approval Processes, click the approval process you created for document checklist items.
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Create a final approval action that sets the document checklist item status to
accepted.
- Under Final Approval Actions, click Add New and select Field Update.
- Name the new field update action and, in Field to Update, select Status.
- Under Picklist Options for Specify New Field Value, select A specific value.
- Select Accepted or the custom status you’re using when a document checklist item has been approved.
- Click Save.
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Create a final rejection action that sets the document checklist item status to
rejected.
- Under Final Rejection Actions, click Add New and select Field Update.
- Name the new field update action and, in Field to Update, select Status.
- Under Picklist Options for Specify New Field Value, select A specific value.
- Select Rejected or the custom status you’re using when a document checklist item has been rejected.
- Click Save.
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Create a recall action that sets the document checklist item status to rejected.
- Under Recall Actions, click Add New and select Field Update.
- Name the new field update action and, in Field to Update, select Status.
- Under Picklist Options for Specify New Field Value, select A specific value.
- Select Rejected or the custom status you’re using when a document checklist item has been rejected.
- Click Save.
- Add other approval, rejection, or recall actions like email alerts for your approval process.
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