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title: "Add an approval"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/CDALS/2344091771/Add%20an%20approval"
format: markdown
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> Macro (aura-html)

## Overview

The app includes a single approval workflow.

![image](media://0c6022ba-fe1e-4821-9bee-e41828480074)

The approval workflow is added and applied to your pages or blog posts in a space by either

- [Adding the page approval workflow](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649625966) **to a single page or blog post** on a page-by-page basis
- [Adding the space approval workflow](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649757021) **across all the documents in a space**

## Add an approval to a page

A page editor can add page-level approval on a page-by-page basis using the **Add Approval** option in the page tools menu.

![image](media://d5e98f3a-1068-44b9-9e52-4c372a3c348b)

The approval workflow is applied to the document, and by default, the approval is set as the initial workflow state, **Review**.

![image](media://af784425-6b9d-4a9f-8354-0feb362f1b95)

> 📝 The **Add Approval** option is only available when no space approval is active in the space.

## Add an approval to all documents in a space

The space administrator can add space-level approval to all the pages and blog posts in a space using the app space document approval dashboard.

Choose Approvals from the **space tools** menu.

![image](media://b7e87bbd-ada5-4667-8bef-ead9efb06eb9)

 In the space tools Approvals dashboard, the Simple Approval Workflow is displayed.

![image](media://6e9f5592-90a9-47cc-bf00-bb00cd0d3963)

To add and apply the approval workflow to all documents in the space, select the **Simple Approval Workflow** and move the grey slider to green.

![image](media://cd1ab0e7-1eca-493b-a649-d8a6ba07e68c)

The approval workflow is applied to all the documents in the space, and by default, the approval is set as the initial workflow state, **Review**.

> 📝 Space approval applies to all documents in a space, even those with an active page approval.

The space approval can be removed from the documents in the space by making the workflow inactive in the approvals dashboard.

## Using an approval workflow on the page

Once applied to a page or blog post, a document can be reviewed and approved, or rejected, using the approval state dialog box.

![image](media://af784425-6b9d-4a9f-8354-0feb362f1b95)

One or more users can be assigned as reviewers using the **Add reviewers** option.

Approval activity is recorded in the [document activity report](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649724259) for each document.

## Related pages

- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649560387](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649560387)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649625966](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649625966)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649757021](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649757021)
- [https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649920854](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CDALS/pages/649920854)