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title: "Single or multiple approvals"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/CDMC/2193130469/Single%20or%20multiple%20approvals"
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## Overview

A content review can have one or more reviewers.

## One reviewer

A single user can approve or reject the content if:

- The workflow doesn’t allow manually assigning a reviewer in the review dialog, and
- The workflow doesn’t automatically assign a reviewer when entering the review state.

![Comala workflow popup with anyonecanapprove setting](media://5dc32054-28cb-4e4e-b50d-e30f3d50c320)

## Multiple reviewers assigned by the workflow

You can set up an approval to automatically assign users or user groups as reviewers when the workflow enters the approval state.

![Comala workflow popup approval set reviewers option](media://5e1fe347-b754-407e-8d5a-33176a1edcb5)

 Approval is restricted to the assigned users only. For the workflow to transition, all assigned reviewers must approve the content. Additional users cannot be assigned, and existing reviewers cannot be removed during the approval process.

## Multiple reviewers for an assignable approval

An assignable approval lets you manually assign one or more users as reviewers using the **Add reviewer** option in the workflow dialog.

![Comala workflow popup add reviewer in basic approval workflow](media://a2c686ed-5979-43a4-8ed2-a29be10ab853)

> ℹ️ Until a reviewer is assigned, any user can approve or reject and complete the approval transition.

1. Click **+Add reviewer **in the workflow state dialog, search, and assign the required number of reviewers. Reviewers can be added one at a time or several at a time.
2. Click **Add a note** to send a note with the notification of the review assignment to the assignee(s).

![Comala workflow popup assigning three reviewers](media://a1486e1b-6be6-4e8a-ade0-c790b7589bfd)

> ℹ️ After assigning a single reviewer, the approval buttons will be disabled for other users.

3. The avatars for each assignee are added to the workflow dialog for the content review. If the approval transition has not yet taken place, additional reviewers can be added using the “**+**” option.

![Comala workflow popup with three assigned reviewers](media://e4399ab0-b28a-432a-876f-4a97387aa5ef)

 

> ℹ️ All assigned reviewers must approve for the transition to happen. If a reviewer hasn't responded yet, they can be unassigned by clicking their avatar in the workflow dialog.

4. Each **assignee can** approve or reject the content. The decision of each individual assignee will be shown in the workflow state dialog.

![Comala workflow popup with three reviewers and decisions recorded](media://8881719f-4361-449b-9d3b-ae167ad2dfc7)

## Multiple reviewers and transitions

If more than one reviewer is assigned, all the reviewers must agree on the content review decision before the state transitions. Only assigned reviewers who have not yet added an approval decision can be unassigned from the content review.

Individual reviewers can change their decision up to the point that all reviewers agree. All individual decisions are recorded in the workflow document activity report.  

![Comala workflow popup with one assignee removed and two remaining](media://9acd3122-fb47-4a26-896a-45b95ef9f433)